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Saturday, June 04, 2005

Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

CNET:

Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned.

Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said.

The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech.

Cough.

Well, there you go. Now a third source has corroborated my April 2005 mention that Apple is moving to Intel chips. So far we've got the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and now CNET independently reporting what WinInfo readers knew a month and a half ago: Apple is dropping IBM and moving to Intel. That's a pretty strong group of publications there. Is anyone still concerned that I made this one up? Seriously?

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