Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Oct 2005 15:43 UTC, submitted by Hakime Seddik
P.A. Semi, a 150-employee chip startup, wants to make name for itself through attention to detail. The Silicon Valley chip startup, run by chip legend Dan Dobberpuhl-Dobberpuhl, its CEO, presided over the development of the Alpha processor while at Digital Equipment Corp. lifted its veil of secrecy Monday. The company will begin offering a new family of low-power, multicore, PowerPC architecture processors in 2006.
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I think what many people have said, and what has become pretty apparent, is that the switch was all about the laptops. IBM was focussed on server chips and embedded chips, but not a cool, low-power notebook chip. Intel's making some good headyway in solutions for laptops (including both the processor itself and accompanying chipsets), and last I heard, Apple's laptops were a key part of their business.
And yes, they've released a dual-core processor, but no, they still haven't reached the 3Ghz mark that was promised for, what is it now, 2 years ago?