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When you talk about Apple, and you talk about ARM, remember that Apple bought two companies: PA Semi and Intrinsity (to get chip design talent). The PA Semi acq
by cosmicray 16y ago
When you talk about Apple, and you talk about ARM, remember that Apple bought two companies: PA Semi and Intrinsity (to get chip design talent). The PA Semi acquisition came with IP for a POWER chip, the PA6T. Thus far Apple has announced nothing using that chip (and possibly never will).
Apple certainly has the ability to make OS X run on POWER, but doing that might people fall over from dizziness.
- gonzo 16y agoDaniel W. Dobberpuhl (the founder of PA Semi) was also the architect for StrongARM (when he was at Digital). Intel only got involved because DEC sued Intel for patent infringement (over the Pentium processor), and lost. Intel grabbed a lot of DEC's technology in the settlement, including StrongARM (which became XScale).