IBM, sinds kort fabrikant van G4 processors voor Apple, blijkt inmiddels dermate hoge yields te halen dat het snellere G4 processors produceert dan Motorola. Terwijl Motorola nog steeds rond de 500MHz hangt is IBM inmiddels in staat om redelijke hoeveelheden op 650MHz te vervaardigen. Motorola ziet geen humor in deze situatie en wil dat de G4 supplies van PowerPC partner IBM beperkt worden:
Motorola is acting like a spoiled brat by using contractual obligations to prevent IBM selling fast PowerPC 7400 (aka G4) to Apple just because it can't produce enough of them itself.
[...] IBM staffers claim to have identified problems with the G4 production process, but have figured out ways around them, and the company is now able to churn out not only 500MHZ G4s, but 600 and 650MHz parts in decent volumes too. And since IBM's yields are higher than Motorola's, it can charge less per chip than its rival.
Fine, but according to the sources, Motorola is severely pissed off about IBM's success and its own failure here, and is allegedly using certain clauses in its AltiVec licensing deal with IBM to limit Big Blue's ability to sell to Apple.