Apple's Intel switch: Jobs' keynote transcriptAnd when we look at the future road maps projected out in mid-2006 and beyond, what we see is the PowerPC gives us sort of 15 units of performance per watt, but the Intel road map in the future gives us 70, and so this tells us what we have to do.
Enhanced parce que l'architecture induisait d'importants effets de simultanéité (par exemple l'instruction Floating cross cmplx nsub–primary multiply–add - fxcxnpma) et des accélérations de type pipeline dans le cas de successions d'instructions à code opération identique. Voir http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/492/wait.html