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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So...if I can hypothesise for a moment:
Apple continue to develop the PPC version of OSX alongside the x86 version.
They then buy a low-power and very efficient PPC chip for use in mobile devices which can run a 'real' version of OSX (as opposed to whatever it is that's really running in the current iPhone).
OSX based tablets, iTV, iPhones and iPods...all relying on an in-house chip that no-one else has access to...hmm. 'Unsigned' third-party apps might have a tougher opponent in the future.