Star Apple Buys Chip Designer
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 11:19 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
Apple Does anyone remember the chip start-up P.A. Semi? This company made its rounds around the internet in 2005, when it lifted the veil of secrecy on a new, highly efficient PowerPC processor it had been working on. 2005 Being the year that Apple announced its switch to Intel, people started to doubt Apple's reasons. A few months later, in May 2006, it became known that Apple had been working with P.A. Semi right before Apple made the switch. P.A. Semi released their chip a year later, and now the company has been bought by... Apple.
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RE: no hardware lock-in
by SamuraiCrow on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 15:02 UTC in reply to "no hardware lock-in"
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Sounds good. Apple does not want a hardware lock-in for it's software. And being CPU agnostic means that the software must be flexible, modular and maintainable, which are signs of good software quality.

I guess we'll find out how serious they are about leveraging LLVM to do their porting work for them.

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