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Apple switches to Intel chips
Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 06:32 PM

CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday, 6 June 2005, in the US that Apple will gradually shift its Mac line to Intel-based chips over the next two years.
Jobs' announcement formed the centerpiece of a keynote speech to Mac programmers attending the company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference here. The conference, expected to draw some 3,800 attendees this year, is a traditional venue for Apple product launches. In his speech, Jobs revealed Apple has been developing all versions of OS X since its inception to run on both Intel and PowerPC chips.

The move to Intel marks a tectonic shift for Apple, which has used processors from IBM and Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) throughout the life of the Mac. However, the company has changed architectures before, shifting in the 1990s from Motorola's 68000 family of chips to the PowerPC architecture jointly developed by IBM and Motorola.

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