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XBox2 To Use PowerPC
Microsoft Xbox To Use PowerPC Chip: I hope they don’t end up regretting this like that guy from Apple did.
“Microsoft’s second-generation Xbox game console will contain a PowerPC microprocessor, sources confirmed Monday.In a statement issued by Microsoft on Monday, the company said that Microsoft had licensed ‘leading edge semiconductor processor technology’ from IBM, to be used in the next-generation Xbox. Sources close to IBM subsequently identified the chip as a PowerPC, but declined to state which chip will be used in the console.”
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"one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made..."
Apple should have used Intel chips, Sculley says Apple Computer Inc. should have adopted the Intel Corp. architecture when it had the chance, former chief John Sculley said Tuesday. [...] In the late-1980s, when Apple was using Motorola Inc. 68000 series chips and considering its next step, Intel co-founder…
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