A Register article dissects Apple’s relationship PowerPC developer Motorola, explaining Apple’s history with the company, the longstanding conflicts between Motorola and IBM over the PowerPC G3 and G4, and the future, which rests on the shoulders of the next-generation PowerPC G5. Meanwhile, another article quotes a new source who reports that Motorola is having good success producing 1.6GHz G5 processors and that the microprocessor is indeed very fast.