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Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
by thaumaturgy 17y ago
Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
- cmos 17y agoNo - it's literally their own chip. They bought a chip company a couple years ago.. http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/apple-buys-chip-p-a-semi-chip-designer-intel-says-wha/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/apple-buys-chip-p-a-semi-... Now they got the whole world in their hands. Probably not worth it to get in the mucky memory market.
- profquail 17y agoWell, remember that they bought PA Semiconductor last year, so they might well be developing their own stuff now... EDIT: Ahem, it's 2010 now, so that would be two years ago ;)
- davidw 17y agoI don't know much about chips, but: It's supposed to be an ARM chip. Motorola did PPC, no?
- philwelch 17y agoMotorola doesn't do semiconductors anymore, they spun that off to Freescale. Also, Apple bought chipmakers PA Semi a few years ago. The Apple A4 CPU is probably built by the former PA Semi.
- spamizbad 17y agoProbably a beefed-up ARM11 or Cortex A9 derived CPU.