Thought it might be a good day for some random linkage.
First, for Chip, I came across a story on Neowin about a “CarPuter”, thought it might be worth a read.
From CNet, Judge rules file-swapping tools are legal. Wow. I seriously didn’t expect that one.
From the Reg, Apple and AMD working together. A snipit: So what can we read into this little interchange? Certainly there have been rumours aplenty in the past concerning Apple’s possible migration to the x86 world, and AMD’s x86-64 technology – now officially known as ‘AMD64’, by the way – in particular. We’ve always found such claims incredible, given the considerable difficulties of managing the migration users and software developers to a new platform. Yes, Apple is a past master at this, witness the 680×0 to PowerPC shift, but don’t underestimate the effort involved. It sure sounds nice. Hopefully something good might come of it.
Also at the Reg, Verizon loses RIAA piracy case. This does not bode well.
Full Throttle: Hell On Wheels Screens. Oooh. Nifty.
Y’z Dock 0.7.5 released. Memory problems are now fixed. Mostly.
That’s about it for today. I’ve got to go scan some negatives. Later.
no way apple and AMD, at least in terms of CPUs. not when IBM has the PowerPC 970 coming out which is already the same architecture as the current G4s, is 64-bit, and starts at at least 1.5ghz, easily ramping to 2ghz to start. then comes the 980s, based off of the Power5 series. there is no end in sight to the IBM powerPC lines, and since they also use the chip in thier blade servers, they have a reason to put R&D and money into future versions, unlike Motorola who decided to focus on the cell business…
you should see an official announcement at the WWDC in June, if not sooner.
From the article:
During the press Q&A, the head of AMD’s server business, Marty Seyer, said the company had been talking to “all tier one and tier two vendors”. Of course, only a few of them have committed themselves to supporting Opteron, leaving the company with its usual base of little known customers, but that’s by the by.
All tier one and tier two vendors? we wondered, and later popped the question, “so can we conclude you’ve been talking to Apple as well, then?”
Said senior official fell silent for a moment then turned to his PR minder and asked, “Can we talk about what we’re doing with them yet?” The answer was a muddy ‘not sure… have to get back to on that’ kind of thing.
It sure sounds like they’re doing something with Apple. Whether or not its the next PowerPC we’ll have to see at WWDC. But they are talking, which could mean that technology improvements are on the way. They could also be colaborating on a new calculator for all we know. Should be interesting.