Comment by kalleboo
4 hours ago
What I always read was that Apple did not want to be stuck relying only on Motorola again like they were with the 680x0. And it worked out, kinda, Apple had IBM to rely on to make the G5 (until IBM also lost interest)
I remember reading that the successor 88110 design with the support chips integrated was announced mainly to woo Apple but I don't know how true that is.
Bitsavers have some documents about the Jaguar RISC project[1] that do indicate Apple's feedback went into the 88110, for example in the System ERS it states "The main processor for the Jaguar is a new version of the Motorola 88000 family which has been enhanced (with input from Jaguar's team) in several areas over the existing implementation. This processor (which will be the MC88110) will be referred to as XJS in the ERS.". There's also an architecture document describing changes Apple wants to make to the 88000 ISA, although I'm not sure how much of this actually got through into the final 88110 (Apple wanted to break binary compatibility, not sure if that happened).
[1] The high end RISC machine project that went nowhere, which AFAIK became known as Tesseract when switched to PPC before it fizzled out.