Apple will annunciate Monday that it designate to transition its computers to Intel Corp. ’s architecture over the next few years , according to several published reports .
Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is expect to make the announcement during his keynote speech at the party ’s Worldwide Developer ’s Conference that get down on Monday in San Francisco , according to a report on Friday by CNet News.com . The Wall Street Journal and New York Times also report over the weekend that Apple is planning a teddy .
Apple plans to commence the shift with dispirited - end PCs in mid-2006 and preserve to gamey - end microcomputer in mid-2007 , News.com reported quote nameless sources .
Intel reject comment on the reports and Apple and IBM could not be immediately attain for scuttlebutt .
First reports of a potential great deal surfaced in The Wall Street Journal a few workweek ago . ask last week at the Computex business deal show in Taipei about a peck with Apple , Anand Chandrasekher , vice president and general manager of Intel Corp. ’s Mobile Platforms Group , say the company has long pursued a deal with Apple .
“ We always talk to Apple , ” he said . “ Apple is a design profits that we ’ve coveted for 20 years and we continue to covet them as a design win . We will never give up on Apple . ”
Should the reports prove true it would be a major shift for Apple , which has been build electronic computer base on the IBM Corp. Power personal computer architecture since the mid - 1990s . It would also be a further shift in the processor industry that has recently seen Microsoft Corp. break with Intel in the game console sphere and chose PowerPC for its Xbox 360 console that will be launched afterwards this year .
The industry should know later Monday as Jobs takes to the microscope stage of the Moscone Convention Center and delivers his words .
