Perhaps the larger threat over the

Perhaps the larger threat over the long term comes from IBM itself, with the 1991 agreement between IBM and Apple to share processor and system software technology. The single-chip version of the POWERRISC processor, dubbed the PowerPC, will be in production by 1994, and Motorola began shipping pre-production samples in early 1993. Both IBM and Apple, the two largest vendors of desktop microcomputers, have announced their intention to build and ship desktop computers using this processor. The combination of these two vendors producing compatible high-end systems could change the direction of the entire desktop computing market.