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New iPhone Chip Will Cost an ARM and a Missile
- louismg 18y agoThis looks like a serious mistake on the engineer's part to post this on their LinkedIn profile. Great move by the reporter to find it, but Apple can't be too pleased. I expect this to happen much more often going forward.
- iigs 18y agoI'm not sure how the Linkedin leak is noteworthy. Preexisting information: 1) Apple uses ARM in the iPhone 2) Apple buys a company who makes ARM CPUs Would it not be negligent for Apple to not at least have a small team exploring this? Just because some chip engineer has a job doesn't mean that so much as one IC will ever come from it -- companies investigate multiple options all the time. That said, it's still likely that this would happen; this seems like as good of a reason as any for Apple to have purchased a CPU manufacturer. I wonder if it rubs Jobs the wrong way to be making components for missles and other weapons. The media commonly portrayed him as a flower child a while back (decade plus ago).
- dmix 18y agoApple is officially part of the military-industrial complex.