News for Tuesday, 7 June 2005

We were not thinking that one day we will post again a news labeled [Rumor]. But, we have decided that on this special occasion following Apple's announcement for Intel CPU adoption, we will exceptionally not follow our established rule (no rumor on Macbidouille/hardmac anymore). We do it, because the information we will reveal belongs now to the past, and it will some of us to better understand that migration to Intel CPU, is not a crazy decision made by Steve Jobs, but rather a fully rational one.
Since the end of last year, relationship between Apple and IBM are bad, very bad... Apple considers IBM as the new Motorola. IBM has been facing huge problems with the PPC975, lately renamed 976 then 980 that has been continuously postponed.
The 970MP processor project has been launch to avoid a big gap and a abnormal delay between processor update. But it would have been ready only by beginning of 2006 at the earliest, while IBM is still facing problems to manufacture the PPC970FX in large volume.
Concerning the PowerBookG5, all developments have been stopped. The reason: no way to manufacture PPC970GX necessary to answer both requirements for mobility and battery lifespan. In addition, they could not setup an efficient cooling system as well as a corresponding battery.
IBM has also decided to drop the PPC750VX which was designed to replace the G4 in entry-level computers.
Apple, as confirmed by Steve jobs, had planned this "Just in case" possibility with Intel processor option. Due to IBM problems for development or manufacturing PowerPC, Apple has activated Marklar project, and we are just starting to see who deep this project goes.
Our source has ensured us regarding the future, because it is already planned for many years. We stop the rumor part here, and let rumor websites to deal with the rest, and to announce in advance the new coming products.