Apple Computer Inc senior vice-president of sales at Apple USA, Mike Dionne, has confirmed the existence of many of the development projects and upcoming products that have been widely heralded in the public prints, Microbytes Daily reports. Speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dionne said that Apple did have RISC projects inthe works in the future product category. And we’re talking to all the major suppliers of those microprocessors and chips. We are very much interested in the technology. I think you’ll see it incorporated into Apple products relatively soon. On the 68040-based Tower Mac, he said mischievously I can’t comment on unannounced products other than it’s a) in the plan and b) on schedule. On the possibility of licensed Macintosh clones, he said that being in a proprietary world is not something that we’re interested in continuing. We want to support standards and want to license, create strategic relationships that make us competitive in the market. Elsewhere, Apple is known to be working on a notebook computer with handprint operation codenamed Newton, which may include a cellular modem, and on an audiovisual home entertainment system with a Mac intosh CPU combined with a custom Com pact Disk player made by Sony Corp.
