Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st May 2009 20:39 UTC, submitted by SReilly
Apple Apple's recent hiring spree of chip designers reveals the company may be about to exert even more control over the components that go into its products. The company may go so far as manufacturing computer processors in-house, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cites only anonymous sources to bolster its claim that the internally designed chips will appear in products no sooner than 2010.
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RE: I think the more likely...
by Liquidator on Sat 2nd May 2009 05:42 UTC in reply to "I think the more likely..."
Liquidator
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2007-03-04

Maybe they're going to create a chip that will be hardly reproduceable and that will ship with every Mac. Then the next OS X will require this chip on your computer to install and to "validate".

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Tuishimi Member since:
2005-07-06

Yeah, that seems likely. Ah well, so much for buying a Psystar. :/

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