CNET, on the fourth anniversary of the switch from PowerPC to Intel, has interviewed an ex-IBMer who had been familiar with the IBM PowerPC-Apple relations at the time. He/She(/Papermaster?) had some interesting insights into the situation at the time.
The generally accepted reason for the switch was that Intel's Power/Watt ratio with the Core Duo crushed anything that IBM/Motorola could come up with (plus it ran Windows). This person offers some different scenarios:
Apple wanted better pricing, according to this person. Apple was paying a premium for IBM silicon, he said, creating a Catch-22. IBM ha
