"What is "though they managed to brand it" supposed to mean anyway?" When the A4 was introduced a lot of the speculation regarding it was incredible. What was

"What is "though they managed to brand it" supposed to mean anyway?" When the A4 was introduced a lot of the speculation regarding it was incredible. What was this amazing new processor, people asked? Apple, it was widely perceived, was suddenly a world leader in IC with this amazing new technology. Only it turns out that it was a last generation Hummingbird processor designed by Samsung, though that gives Samsung too much credit given that it was a standard ARM core with a standard PowerVR GPU. Yet the myth persists.