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Apple buys P.A. Semi chip designer, Intel says wha? - Engadget
So what will analysts make of Apple's $278 million in cash purchase of the 150 person P.A. Semi microprocessor design company? The company was founded by Dan Dobberpuhl, lead designer of DEC's doomed Alpha and StrongArm processors, ...

Why Did Apple Buy PA Semi? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Daniel Eran Dilger Just ahead of its recession defying, record setting Q2 2008 earnings reports, Apple revealed plans to buy PA Semi, a chip designer.

More iPhone 3G details: future Apple-made chips, varying visual ...
Jobs also told NYT that Apple's acquisition of PA Semi was, in fact, intended to reduce Apple's reliance on third-party chip makers. Specifically, he said, "PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods. ...

PA Semi team creating new ARM-based iPhone CPU - The Unofficial ...
Apple Senior Manager Wei-han Lien let slip that teams acquired with the purchase of PA Semi are working on an ARM-based processor for the iPhone, and possibly other devices, according to The New York Times. While not a huge surprise, ...

Apple and IBM Compete in Microprocessors for iPod and iPhones ...
The opinion also hangs on the fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the New York Times that PA Semi, the start-up it bought that designed a low-power Power chip under a license from IBM, "would be used to build system-on-chips for the ...

Electronista | PA Semi team working on next-gen iPhone CPU
The staff of Apple's recently acquired PA Semiconductor are working on a new, internally developed ARM processor for the iPhone, the LinkedIn profile former PA Semi senior manager Wei-han Lien has revealed. ...

IBM and Apple chip competitors? Not quite | Apple - CNET News
Papermaster's lawyers are attempting to argue that since the only overlapping product between Apple and IBM--servers--is one that wouldn't be part of his official duties at Apple, and since he won't be running Apple's P.A. Semi chip ...

Apple's PA Semi acquisition to result in new iPhone processor ...
In April, Apple agreed to purchase PA Semi, the designer of a 64-bit, power-conservative, dual-core processor, Forbes reports. PA Semi's chip is based not on Intel x86 (like Macs) or ARM (like the iPhone) processor specifications, ...

Microsoft's Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra
When Apple acquired the chip designer PA Semi for $278 million in March of this year, Steve Jobs confirmed the company's plans to use PA Semi engineering talent to build SoCs for use in iPhones, iPods and possibly other gadgets down the ...

Trade Secret News: IBM, Apple and a Papermaster
Apple competes against IBM in developing servers, PCs and microprocessors, IBM says, referring to Apple's Xserve line of servers and Apple's acquisition of PA Semi, a semiconductor that IBM also considers a competitor. ...