[Info-vax] OT: About proprietary chips

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <000fa71b$0$2269$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> Alpha failed because it didn't reach sufficient numbers. IA64 certaintly
>> hasn't become commodity and/or high volume. Will be interesting to see
>> if Apple will be able to get large enough numbers to make its A4 chip
>> viable.
> 
>    So where can we get specs and architecture descriptions of this new
>    chip?
> 

You can't, probably. It's a custom design.
Why should Apple show that ?

The point here is that JF doesn't understand the ARM market.
Just forget about it...