IBM, Motorola produce chip prototype, showing first result of pact with Apple
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IBM and Motorola Inc have developed a prototype for the PowerPC 601 microprocessor, the first product resulting from the companies' 1991 cooperative agreement with Apple Computer Inc. The new chip will be used in IBM's new line of low-cost workstations, which are expected to be available in late 1993, and will also be featured in Apple's Macintosh computers in 1994. In addition, the French electronics companies Cie des Machines Bull and Thomson-CSF will be using the new chips in their machines. The chip is expected to perform comparably to Intel Corp's Pentium chip, Sun Microsystems Inc's SuperSparc and Silicon Graphics Inc's R4000. The chip will use reduced-instruction set computing (RISC), but will be smaller and more energy efficient than its competitors that use the same technology.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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IBM to push 'client-server' development
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IBM plans to announce a major effort to develop 'client-server' computing, in which a microcomputer, or client, draws on the resources of a bigger computer, or server. Because the server is often just a more powerful microcomputer, client-server is seen as the microcomputer industry's response to the mainframes that have been IBM's bread-and-butter products for years. The announcement is more important as a symbolic than as a tangible move for IBM, which already promotes itself as a leader in client-server computing. Industry observers say that IBM is essentially conceding that it cannot base its product strategy on mainframe computers. A new client-server business unit headed by Tom Furey will report directly to IBM Pres Jack Kuehler.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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