Monday, June 13, 2005
Jobs's game plan has everyone guessing
New article at International Herald Tribune - Technology:
As it happens, Intel's was not the only alternative chip design that Apple had explored for the Mac. An executive close to Sony said that last year Jobs had meetings in California with Nobuyuki Idei, then Sony's chairman and chief executive, and Kenichi Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation.
Kutaragi tried to interest Jobs in adopting the Cell microprocessor, which is being developed by IBM for use in the coming PlayStation 3, in exchange for access to certain Sony technologies. Jobs rejected the idea, telling Kutaragi that he was disappointed with the Cell design, which he believed would be even less effective than the Power PC.
As it happens, Intel's was not the only alternative chip design that Apple had explored for the Mac. An executive close to Sony said that last year Jobs had meetings in California with Nobuyuki Idei, then Sony's chairman and chief executive, and Kenichi Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation.
Kutaragi tried to interest Jobs in adopting the Cell microprocessor, which is being developed by IBM for use in the coming PlayStation 3, in exchange for access to certain Sony technologies. Jobs rejected the idea, telling Kutaragi that he was disappointed with the Cell design, which he believed would be even less effective than the Power PC.
# posted by TheCellBlogger : 12:59 PM
