It looked for a moment as if troubled Tadpole Technology Plc was planning to dive back into the PowerPC world, but the company said no. A report in PC Week magazine late last month quoted Deane Curran, director of marketing and channels development as saying that the company would launch a PowerPC-based notebook late this year or early in 1996. This looked a bit surprising given that Tadpole had just bailed out of the market – scrapping its 601-based RS/6000 N40 design in the face of IBM Corp’s new portables. George Grey, Tadpole’s chief executive, said last week that there must have been a misunderstanding: We have not made any announcements about the development of PowerPC notebooks. While we clearly have the capability (witness the N40) we have no current plans to expand our range at present beyond the Sparc, Pentium and announced plans for an Alpha system. We are obviously watching the development of the PowerPC market carefully, and this doesn’t mean that we will not be doing a PowerPC notebook in the f uture.
