Comment Re:Too Much? (Score 1) 65
The entire point of the AIM alliance was to make sure Apple wasn't dependent upon any one supplier. Yes, things weren't ideal with Motorola at the time either, but it's not clear to me that throwing PowerPC out the window was the only option.
And that didn't happen. Motorola could never keep up.
Could have. Didn't want to. They were more interested in low-end CPUs with specialized hardware to accelerate gaming, targeting game console manufacturers and set-top box manufacturers as their primary customers..
There is a reason why there was never a laptop G5 chip. IBM would not invest in designing a power efficient mobile chip; none of their Power systems were laptops.
Pretty much, yes. Apple left AIM because nobody could build an efficient laptop chip. Apple left Intel because they did, but only briefly, and then sat on their laurels while the iPhone CPU basically caught up.