These guys do smoke a lot of crack to come up with some of there
things, but I do know there primary contact is at Moto. So...
> Motorola/AMD update [16:36 9/24]
> New information from Motorola sources suggests that not only will
>Motorola be taking advantage of AMD's excess production capacity to
>build more and faster G4s, but that it may actually be able to reduce
>its costs by outsourcing production to AMD over time.
> Motorola will also reportedly be licensing several technologies from
>AMD, including its on-chip, high-speed Level 2 cache design,
>high-speed memory controller systems, and potentially some of its
>floating-point processing technologies.
> The biggest news of all has to be the persistent rumor at Motorola
>that management is looking for a new arm to the AIM (Apple, IBM,
>Motorola) PowerPC alliance....and that AMD could be it. What possible
>purpose could a new partner serve that couldn't be culled from the
>existing members? Could it have something to do with a process
>technology prototyped by AMD which could infringe on AIM patents, but
>in alliance with AIM could be used on both the Athlon and PowerPC
We have PSX2 kicking Wintel out of the home, and now this....
Oh the humanity.
Tim
--Suck it up, tuck it in, and up the dosage.
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These guys do smoke a lot of crack to come up with some of there things, but I do know there primary contact is at Moto. So...
<excerpt>Motorola/AMD update [16:36 9/24]
New information from Motorola sources suggests that not only will Motorola be taking advantage of AMD's excess production capacity to build more and faster G4s, but that it may actually be able to reduce its costs by outsourcing production to AMD over time.
Motorola will also reportedly be licensing several technologies from AMD, including its on-chip, high-speed Level 2 cache design, high-speed memory controller systems, and potentially some of its floating-point processing technologies.
The biggest news of all has to be the persistent rumor at Motorola that management is looking for a new arm to the AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorola) PowerPC alliance....and that AMD could be it. What possible purpose could a new partner serve that couldn't be culled from the existing members? Could it have something to do with a process technology prototyped by AMD which could infringe on AIM patents, but in alliance with AIM could be used on both the Athlon and PowerPC
</excerpt>
We have PSX2 kicking Wintel out of the home, and now this....
Oh the humanity.
Tim
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