eWeek is carryinga few more detailson the upcoming 64-bit desktop Power4 derivative chips from IBM that caused so much enthusiasm in the Mac community a few weeks back. If you followed the analysis of the original information that was donehereandhereon Ars, then very little in this article will be news to you. Still, there are some new tidbits, which I’ll list in a moment. But first, I want to note that the most important thing this article does is lend credibility to the claim that this chip is indeed intended for use in Apple machines, and that Apple and IBM are working together on it in some capacity. eWeek has been very reliable in their Apple scoops so far, and while they’re almost never the first to leak new information (this particular Apple-IBM infoshowed upon aMac rumor siteearlier this week) the information that they do chose to publish has historically been spot-on. They’ve sort of become the last and most reliable link in the Mac rumor chain–a Mac story goes from being rumor to an eWeek story to “official.”
