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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Member since:2006-01-01
"it might be an alternative to x86-processors for laptops, settop-boxes, tablets etc."
And in my opinion... BINGO!
What with the recent landrush to Eeepc type mini-laptops, I can see the apple version being released soon. This sounds like just the processor to run them.
Member since:2006-10-10
IMO there's not enough profit margin for Apple to enter the low budget laptop arena. They've built their current dynasty on forcing the consumer to believe that because Apples wares are overpriced, it's of the highest quality. Mod it down if you like, but that fact will still remain.
An eeepc-ish Macbook Lite would be dirtying the knees of the company's financial goals, and would provide nothing beneficial in return. There's nothing "commodity" in Apple's entire product line, except all the parts inside their pretty little packaging.
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2007-07-27
the only processor the company if offering right now falls somewhere between the intel atom and intel core 2. it might be an alternative to x86-processors for laptops, settop-boxes, tablets etc. - but it can't compete with the arm-processors in iphone & ipod on the low end or the intels core 2 processors on the high end.
maybe it's just for patents, man-power, some undisclosed project which where started after the negotation for an successor for ibm's g5 failed. at least i don't see what they can offer apple right now.