Comment Yea, it's notebooks they are not switching back (Score 3, Insightful) 533
It's not just the 'raw' technology but the application of it. Intel has a lot invested in chip sets that are well groomed for notebooks. Power management is key here.
Now before the Transmeta crusoe threat, (well scare really) one could reasonably argue that Intel was lacking in motivation to make good notebook chip sets, regardless of how they got there, here we are ..
There just is not a big enough market for IBM to justify the expense of developing a polished G5 note book chip set. Mind you I am not saying IBM is a crappy company or anything like that. They easily have the technical resources to do it, it just is not in their business interest to spend the kind of bucks it would take.
Now before the Transmeta crusoe threat, (well scare really) one could reasonably argue that Intel was lacking in motivation to make good notebook chip sets, regardless of how they got there, here we are
There just is not a big enough market for IBM to justify the expense of developing a polished G5 note book chip set. Mind you I am not saying IBM is a crappy company or anything like that. They easily have the technical resources to do it, it just is not in their business interest to spend the kind of bucks it would take.
