{"id":1423,"date":"2005-06-03T20:38:48","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2005-06-03T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T20:38:48","slug":"apple_intel_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Apple &#038; Intel?   Is it about the DRM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/06\/03#When:9:21:38PM\">Dave<\/a> points to and comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips\/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5731398&#038;subj=news\">Stephen Shankland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Apple has used IBM&#8217;s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel&#8217;s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of recent moves by Intel to bake DRM into their chipsets, along with Apple&#8217;s growing DRM platform (Fairplay, iTunes and Quicktime &#8211; which run on windows pc&#8217;s and Mac OS X&#8217;s), this smells to me like a deal based on a big DRM rollup &#8211; paving the way for Apple&#8217;s much discussed HD movie\/video download system.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/hardnews\/20050603_132207.html\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/a> has more on Intel&#8217;s hardware DRM (Digital Restriction Management) plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave points to and comments on Stephen Shankland: Apple has used IBM&#8217;s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel&#8217;s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}