[ikka]

TWO OBVIOUS ERRORS:

1. Intel is already shipping, in cheap-ish systems, CPUs that have the EM64T extensions, which is essentially a clone of the AMD64 instructions. Close enough to properly be called a 64-bit chip.

2. The Cell processor has several flaws vs. a G5 or G4 chip, but the biggie is: the Cell does not do out-of-order execution. That is a show-stopper and means that a 3Ghz Cell CPU would in most cases be outperformed by a 1.7GHz G4 (or so), let alone a G5.

[TexasGreg]

Those are indeed errors, and Intel is NOT buying Apple ... however, it's a FACT that Apple would be switching to Intel chips, phasing in late in 2006 and completing the transition in 2007.

So ....

[neb52]

The HP theory seems to be off based as well. They are appearing to be moving to diversifying the chips they are using by using more AMD chips, plus giving guarantying full capability with Ubuntu.