It's the downside of one of Apple's most brilliant moves, namely switching to Intel microprocessors.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors.
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While Apple's designs are unique, its hardware is powered by the same Intel microprocessors you'll find in any computer sold by Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's long-range plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the so-called Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Consider Intel in microprocessors, Cisco Systems in networking equipment and EMC Corp. in corporate computer data storage.
AMD, the perennial second banana to Intel in microprocessors and memory products, is on the skids again.
The problem, observers say, is that AMD is still lagging Intel in microprocessors, while trying to recoup lost market share in the graphics market.
Only a few select visionaries every become breakthrough successes: Zilog, Digital, IBM, Rise Semiconductor, Transmeta and others all tried (and largely failed) to compete with Intel in microprocessors.
But AMD, battle-hardened by years of combat with Intel in microprocessors and later with Nvidia in graphics chips, and with a savvy veteran of the PC wars in command, finally has a strategy that will allow it to survive and maybe even thrive.
Intel's microprocessors were then taking off--and investors were looking to knock out Intel with a new chip, even one as crazy as a rat smell center.
The company also positioned itself for the future by agreeing to use Intel 's microprocessors.
Intel's famously demanding former chief quietly listened to executives politely pondering how Intel's microprocessors will be shaped by trends like Web computing.
Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.
Global demand for Intel's microprocessors was unseasonably high, according to the chip maker, helping it report a 25.0% boost in second-quarter earnings late Tuesday.
ViaVideo's engineers used two Philips TM-1000 digital signal processors capable of handling, between them, 6 billion operations a second -- the equivalent of seven Intel Pentium II microprocessors found in top-of-the-line PCs.
All of Apple's machines will get Intel's new Penryn microprocessors, which are more battery-friendly than Intel's older models.
High global demand for microprocessors helped Intel post better than expected second-quarter results Tuesday.
Despite being the world's largest manufacturer of microprocessors, Intel has been largely pushed out of the growing tablet market.
That could do more than just help Intel take business from rival AMD, which competes with Intel to build PC microprocessors.
"Strong demand from corporate customers for our most advanced microprocessors helped Intel achieve the best quarter in the company's 42-year history, " says Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini.
Intel, which supplies microprocessors that serve as calculating engines in most PCs, is emphasizing a new line of battery-conserving chips that is known by the code name Haswell.
"Strong demand from corporate customers for our most advanced microprocessors helped Intel achieve the best quarter in the company's 42-year history, " says Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini .
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett once compared Intel's flagship x86 microprocessors to a creosote bush, a desert plant that drips poisonous oil, killing off any nearby vegetation.
The new guy surveyed Intel's lineup of PC microprocessors and saw that they got better and faster every year.
All of Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) machines will get Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) new Penryn microprocessors, which are more battery-friendly than Intel's older models.
Hacking into automotive microprocessors from the likes of Intel, Bosch, Siemens and Motorola was once the province of engine aficionados and the street-racing set.
According to the several online reports, Intel has slashed the prices of its microprocessors by over 10% to achieve mainstream pricing which would help increase user adoption of Ultrabooks.
There has been extensive speculation that Intel could sign Apple as a customer for microprocessors used in smart phones and tablets, as it seeks to reduce its reliance on using Samsung as a contrat manufacturer.
Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.
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