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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Apple switching back to Power architecture?

Just saw that apple has acquired PA-Semi who ironically builds processors based on the IBM Power architecture (the same architecture it dumped for Intel for its desktop/laptops). It’s interesting to see them come full circle although this is clearly a mobile device opportunity and I’m guess not for desktop/laptops…

http://gizmodo.com/382929/apple-buys-itself-a-little-chip-company-known-for-super-efficient-processors