“Computer technology giants Intel Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. are setting up housekeeping together — as neighbors — on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Oakland,” Ron DaParma reports for The Pitttsburgh Tribune-Review. “Apple, which joined with Intel in June to announce a precedent-setting deal for Intel’s microprocessors to power Apple’s Macintosh computers, plans to open a research facility at CMU’s Collaborative Innovation Center, Gov. Ed Rendell announced Monday… Plans are for researchers from Apple and Intel in the new building to discuss the possibility of cooperating or working on joint projects, said Todd C. Mowry, director of the Intel facility.”
Full article here.
And it just keeps getting better all the time…
First post!
Apples & Melons…Don’t you just love it? What a pear!
Third post!
I’d Rather have a Peach, I can eat a peach for hours.
millions of peaches…
peaches for me…
millions of peaches…
peaches for free…
Carnegie Mellon was where the Mach kernel was born. A great school and a great place to build the future.
Remember, Apple and Intel, the key to a successful relationship is separate bathrooms!
Do we send the housewarming gifts to the Admin offices at Carnegie Mellon?
Don’t you just love the dog days of summer?
the business caché that Intel brings with it – just the name, and nothing more – will open the doors to Apple accross the planet…
except of course in those big business IT shops who can’t possibly command enough of their brain cells to use more than Windows… XP, and 2000, and XP SP2, and NT 4, and 98…
but adding another OS will be right out.
As soon as the first round of viruses show up on Vista’s window sil, the masses will flock to a better computing system. period. People will look back a few years from now and mock the IT departments with standing armies of anti-virus personnel and wonder why the hell did they pay them all that money?
This is good. I hope they can synergize and take the innovation to the next level.
The once beleaguered Apple is now a computer technology giant? But, what about 2.5% market share? Doesn’t that count for anything? Isn’t Apple on it’s death bed?
Who the hell’s driving this train?
11th post!
This rules. My girlfriend is currently a student at CMU. I know where I’ll be loitering when I visit App… er, I mean her.
Feh. They should’ve done this here in Philadelphia at the University of Penn, where the world’s first computer, ENIAC, was created. Screw Pittsburgh. They get a top-shelf Apple research lab and Philly doesn’t even have an Apple store! (Just one out in the burbs, that’s all.)
CMU is where Avi went to grad school and where mach was developed. Apple and CMU go back a long way.
I went to CMU and I can tell you that Apple and the campus are tight. Apple recruits fiercely on campus, despite not having great prices at the campus computer store. There are (were?) several Mac computing clusters with a lot of high end machines in the art/architecture building. CMU also is site of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). CMU also has an advanced data storage research center and a wireless communications research group. CMU was one of the first campuses to install 802.11b across the entire university. As for the Intel/Apple research center, I think that is closed to the students… which raised a big bruhaha on campus years ago. The building was not completed when I was there, but there was a lot of scandal regarding putting corporate offices on campus land (hell, they even took some prime parking space in an already scarce environment).