Michel Mayer Quotations

Next year, 50 percent of car (models) in the world will have PowerPCs.

We delivered on our commitments in 2005. We are pleased with this performance, but clearly are not yet satisfied. We are focusing on a number of initiatives to enhance operating results and grow revenues in 2006 and beyond.

We don't need to spend a lot of money to make the point that we are able to exist outside of the PC. We've been in all those markets for many years...we don't have to convince the world that we can successfully branch out.

That's where innovation is. So desktop is not a market that we want to serve.

Desktop is a very small piece of our business, and it's going away. Our only customer is Apple (for laptops), and they are switching to Intel sometime next year.

OK, Intel has the PC, that's fine. There are so many opportunities outside the PC that it's much better using our resources to try to go into spaces where we are really leaders.

The G5 was good and it was going to be the follow-on of the PowerPC road map for the desktop. It worked pretty well. And then IBM decided not to take the G5 into the laptop and decided to really focus its chip business on the game consoles.