Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 11:19 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
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: Places the chips will be used
by bsharitt on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 14:01
in reply to "Places the chips will be used"
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My guess is that the iPhone and iPod lines will stay ARM for the forseable future, and this chip will instead be heading to territories that Intel's (lower end mostly)Atom and VIA's proccessors are starting to target, the mini tablet/MID/overgrown PDA/what ever you want to call it market, that Apple will probably be entering soon. I could also see it in the Apple TV where Intel doesn't really hurt or help.
Right now PA Semi's stuff doesn't look phone level yet, and I don't see any reason for Apple to ditch Intel in the higher segments.
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1 - iPod touch
2 - iPhone
3 - tablet/PDA (i.e. future handhelds)
4 - AppleTV
5 - AppleTV server
Edited 2008-04-23 12:26 UTC