July 11, 2005
Last week, IBM announced a dual-core version of the PowerPC 970 along with another low-power version. This comes just one month after Steve Jobs dropped the Intel bombshell at the WorldWide Developers Conference. With Jobs naming IBM's failure to provide a low-power CPU for laptops as one of the reasons for dropping PowerPC CPUs after 11 years. What gives?
Hannibal lifts the embargo on some information that he had been holding close to the vest, and there are a couple of surprises. There's definitely more to the story than meets the eye—think video iPod.


