Magazine article from our research archive:

Apple turns its back on IBM chips and plans the future using and Intel-based architecture.(ANALYSIS)(International Business Machines Corp.)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed the world's suspicions last month, that Apple is about to dump the hugely powerful PowerPC range of chips and shift over to an Intel-based architecture over the next two years for all its PCs and servers and possibly even for smaller devices like iPods.

Jobs announced the deal with Intel at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and brought Intel CEO Paul Otellini onto the stage to buddy up. No financial details were revealed.

The word is that Apple wanted lower power chips so that its architecture could scale up and down from portable to super powerful computers. Jobs said he was convinced that Intel would eventually win the race to ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

See all results. Or, try our Advanced Search.

Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 60 million articles! Access over 3,500 publications with a FREE trial!