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Byline: Hiawatha Bray
Jun. 7--Apple Computer Inc. yesterday dumped IBM Corp. as the supplier of processor chips for its Macintosh computers. Starting next year, future Macs will use Intel Corp. processors, the same kinds of chips found in millions of PCs running software from Apple's archrival Microsoft Corp.
Apple plans to have its first Intel-based computers available a year from now, and its entire line of desktop and notebook computers are to feature Intel chips by 2007.
The company did not say which Intel chips would be used in its products, but Intel spokesman Charles Mulloy said they would be standard Intel processors, just like the Pentium 4…