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I agree with the comments on the link, clearly these were ex semi PA employees who didnt want to work for apple, not apple employees that started a chip company

I agree with the comments on the link, clearly these were ex semi PA employees who didnt want to work for apple, not apple employees that started a chip company. What they wilk do for google, provided the employees don't peel from google as well is speculative at best. But I'd doubt google bought it for the same reason as apple bought semi-pa. Google seems pretty adament on working qith existing handset providers.

pavs 17y ago
> But I'd doubt google bought it for the same reason as apple bought semi-pa. Google seems pretty adament on working qith existing handset providers. Apple made their first Phone with Motorola.[1] It is not easy to enter a hardware industry; more so if you have no prior experience with consumer hardware market (unlike Apple). I think its more likely that Google was testing the water with Nexus One to see how people will react to it and how the process of manufacturing phones work. If I remember correctly they worked closely with HTC and had quite a bit influence on how the final product will look like. Remember, they are also working on a slate device and a net-book device, which will debut sometime this year. While this acquisition might not have any direct relation to the Google hardware devices coming out this year. I think it is highly likely that they might start building their own devices with custom processors soon. 1. http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-motorola-rokr-e1-apple-itunes-phone/ http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-motorola-rokr-e1-appl...