xvlfaf writes "I am in final
assembly for Xerox Digital Copiers. These things use
PPC chips from Motorola to run the scanner/printer
functions.
We have been hearing rumors that AMD will be taking
over prodution of the PPC soon.
I'm not high up enough to confirm this. Does anyone
have any inside info from AMD or Motorola to confirm
this? I have also heard rumors that OS X is running on
AMD. Could it be that it is really the AMD PPC chip? "i>
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