{"id":8537,"date":"2005-06-07T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2005-06-07T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T14:29:23","slug":"so-all-of-a-sudden-pentium-is-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8537","title":{"rendered":"So, All of a Sudden, Pentium is Innovation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.apple.akadns.net\/\" target=\"new\">vid<\/a> last night of Steve Jobs&#8217; keynote at Apple&#8217;s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) and his rumored, but still shocking to hear, announcement that Apple was switching from IBM&#8217;s PowerPC technology to Intel processors, I immediately thought: &#8220;Wait a minute. Hasn&#8217;t Apple spent a bunch of time arguing that PowerPC-based chips provide the fastest desktop architecture on the planet? So, how is all this so earth-shattering? Isn&#8217;t Apple moving backwards?&#8221; TUAW <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2005\/06\/07\/but-uncle-steve-i-thought-intel-chips-were-faster\/\" target=\"new\">asks the same question<\/a> this morning. The comments to the blog item respond in the same way that I did to myself (hey, when it&#8217;s 3:30am and I&#8217;m up watching a devconf keynote, I&#8217;m allowed to talk to myself): Jobs was talking about future Intel-based processors, not the current product line. Allegedly, Apple and Intel engineers will work (I&#8217;m sure already are working) together to build new chips that Apple will hype to death like they did the existing PowerPC processors.<\/p>\n<p> On a related note, our favorite(?) cyber-curmudgeon John C. Dvorak has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7BD0E8469A-28FC-415D-9281-C97B5FA2CA3D%7D&#038;siteid=mktw&#038;dist=\" target=\"new\">interesting piece<\/a> in his Second Opinion column today about how, strangely enough, Linux might be the big loser in this bargain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the vid last night of Steve Jobs&#8217; keynote at Apple&#8217;s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) and his rumored, but still shocking to hear, announcement that Apple was switching from IBM&#8217;s PowerPC technology to Intel processors, I immediately thought: &#8220;Wait a minute. Hasn&#8217;t Apple spent a bunch of time arguing that PowerPC-based chips provide the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So, All of a Sudden, Pentium is Innovation?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}