INTEL inside is a cancer.
First i start off by mentioning that apple just made available an update to the 'MacBook Pro' using an 'INTEL core2 processor running at 2.6Ghz with an L1 of 6M, and being manufactured using a 45nm process {all under 20watts}'. And on apple's website theres a comparison of the performance of the 'New MacBook Pro' to the 'Old PowerBook'. Now the processor in the 'Old PowerBook' is a "Motorola 74xxxx running at 1.67Ghz with an L1 of 32k and manufactured using a 130nm process {all under 15watts}'. Now we all know that when a processor shrinks from say 180nm to 130nm to 90nm to 65nm to 45nm etc, that each step allow for lower wattage usage and higher frequency. Now the comparison on apple's website shows the performance of a 32bit-PowerPC@130nm against a DUAL-CORE 64bit-core2@45nm {running 1Ghz faster then PowerPC}, yet some applications are only 3-5 times faster than PowerPC, and core2 also has a 6M L1. Now if you cant see that intel's has reach the end of there performance advantage by being the first to a new manufacturing process your an idiot. Tell me how great the 'atom' is which is just the performance of a Pentium III{which was manufactured using a 180nm and 130nm process) now renamed 'atom' using a 45nm process. IBM did a 64-bit dual-core at 180nm that was POWER4. IBM did a triple-core 64-bit processor for XBOX360 at 90nm. PaSemi did a dual-core 64-bit POWER processor at 90nm{all under 20watts}. Freescale's dual-core 32-bit PowerPC at 90nm {all under 12watt}. At what time could INTEL FIT two of there large hot processor on a single die? at 65nm. Apple's reasons for buying PaSemi was for high-performance computing, INTEL has reach a dead end. Imagine the performance of PWRficient using a 45nm process, all ready PWRficient 90nm processor blow INTEL's core2 away in perfomance all the while using less wattage.
APPLE's going after IBM.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
