Sounds like Trip was spouting some revisionist history regarding the PowerPC - the chips were designed by a collaboration between Apple, IBM and Motorola (AIM) to replace the 680x0 chipsets and update IBMs own POWER line of servers. Apple was the driver for the creation to replace the aging 680x0 CPUs (and a major contributor to the design, along with IBM and their POWER series which it derived from), not 3DO as he claimed.
The chips were created for the Apple Power Macintosh line, not the 3DO M2 as claimed. Sure the M2 was likely to use it, bit was not the reason Apple, IBM and Motorola produced the chip line.
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Re: I Almost Got Sega, Philips And Panasonic To Take On Sony, Says EA Founder Trip Hawkins
Sounds like Trip was spouting some revisionist history regarding the PowerPC - the chips were designed by a collaboration between Apple, IBM and Motorola (AIM) to replace the 680x0 chipsets and update IBMs own POWER line of servers. Apple was the driver for the creation to replace the aging 680x0 CPUs (and a major contributor to the design, along with IBM and their POWER series which it derived from), not 3DO as he claimed.
The chips were created for the Apple Power Macintosh line, not the 3DO M2 as claimed. Sure the M2 was likely to use it, bit was not the reason Apple, IBM and Motorola produced the chip line.