“It’s not the product some have been hoping for, but there is already one Apple Computer machine that has ‘Intel Inside.’ For a long time, people have suggested that Apple make its Mac OS X operating system work with Intel chips. While the Mac maker has not done so, it has used Intel processors in one of its recent products–the Xserve RAID storage system,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
“Intel included one of the rack-mounted storage systems in a display at this week’s Intel Developer Forum here… According to Intel marketing materials, the Xserve RAID uses Intel’s IOP 331 chip, a derivative of the XScale processor. The IOP chip, which is used in many storage systems, is designed to speed the task of shuttling data in and out of a computer system,” Fried reports.
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