AMD's Newest Licensee Is Officially Apple!

[kendall]

"As Hector Ruiz's keynote this morning at Comdex drew to a close, he invited Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering on stage and welcomed Apple Computer as AMD's newest lisencee.

Rubinstien was quoted as saying, "while specific details will not be discussed today about our collaboration with AMD, expect great things from this partnership in the upcomming year and more information to be made available at MWSF.""

64-bit x86 Hammer technology here we come!

More can be found here.

**edit** Sorry, someone I know (a PC user ) IM me this and I got excited and posted it here without verifying it. The link's URL was supposed to end in #22 but that still only brings up an unrelated Apple article. Anyway, as far as I know, AMD didn't announce any new lisencees. **edit**

[DMCrimson]

well, this might not necessarily mean that Apple is switching for x86-processors, but instead share technology with AMD, where both parties would benefit most of their know-how...

[bbloke]

Your link didn't work. If your link was supposed to be http://www.amdzone.com/#2 instead of http://www.amdzone.com/22, then Hector Ruiz's keynote was referred to but there was no mention of Apple (unless I'm missing something?):

"Rob and I just got out of the Hector Ruiz keynote and after Q and A. Real quickly here are some key points.

Athlon XP 64-Clawhammer desktop name confirmed
Slash and Gibson digital guitars
power company business win with nForce powered Compaqs
Hammer wafer yields over 50% a month ago
64 bit Unreal demoed
400MHZ FSB nForce 2 demo, possibly new bus speed
IBM DB2 Opteron demo
Star Wars previsualization on Athlons"

Have you got any other links with more information? All the standard Mac rumor sites seem rather downbeat after the keynote, which I wouldn't expect if there had been a major revelation.

[edX]

your link gives a page not found error. and none of the reprots from members include anything about apple.

[RyanLang]

I hope this isn't some kind of joke. I can't find anything relating to the quotes displayed in the post above on any site, including the rumor sites which are usually on top of things like this. Hopefully this will be cleared up soon! I'm going crazy here wondering if this John Rubi thing actually happened.

[fryke]

My guess is that somebody is messing around with Itanium's account. He doesn't usually give false information out... There's NOTHING like this in the keynote news. You'd read about it even on zdnet.com or news.com by now. :/

[MacLuv]

[kendall]

Hey, I made that coughdrop!