Apple's former chip manufacturer? Old cartoons?

I've waited a week, thinking that someone would surely correct Veronica's assertion that Apple switched from AMD to Intel (5/20, during the discussion about Dell servers switching from Intel to AMD). The PowerPC chips were in fact manufactured by IBM, and I don't know who made Mac's chips before that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't AMD. Anyone know?

Also, a bit in one of the many discussions about product placement had the gang extrapolating into the future and coming up with a hypothetical, Coke-created TV show pushing cola products. This reminds me of He-Man, which, as the story goes, was created by a toy company (Mattel?) solely to sell the toys it had already planned to produce. The dog wagging the tail, right? The whole thing could be apocryphal, but as I understand it, all of the cartoons around the Voltron/Thundercats/Silverhawks/Go-Bot era were created with the same thing in mind.