The IBM 970MP is locked, loaded and ready to go. There's no reason why Apple would forgo putting that chip into its systems,

How can the industry come up with standards if companies don't reveal their patents in committee?

In order to sell the leftover older chips, you have to cut prices.

Intel's philosophical emphasis is swinging from one extreme to the other. We haven't seen many details yet, but it may be even more efficient than the AMD chips, and Intel has been hinting at a lot of performance.

In many ways, it looks like a server on a chip.

The Intel chipset is much more complex. What they don't talk about is that the cost of the chipset will go up significantly.

It's really not an Apples to Apples comparison, if you will.

It took a little bit longer for these to launch; they said they would be launching them sooner.

It's disappointing that something they hoped would provide a greater kicker couldn't be there and that they delayed the launch for nine months to close to a year.

They're recognizing that in some market segments like telecom, mobile handsets and handhelds, the parts tuned for faster speeds are too difficult to use and too power-hungry.