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Post by zerohour on Apr 28, 2010 12:26:21 GMT
Now that Apple have used the A4 chip in their iPad, where does it end?
Does this mean Intel may be on shaky ground with Apple? What comes next a laptop using said processors. Have PA Semicondutors and Intrinsity got more usage than just a mobile market.
Why wait for the next gen Intel when Apple can dictate their own rules regarding chips if pushed.
It certainly is looking interesting especially with the iPhone 4G in the wings.
What do you think ?
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Post by OziDug on May 9, 2010 14:30:43 GMT
There seems to be two strands on the hardware side - the ARM stuff, which is well-established for mobile (and Intel never managed to beat an ARM design so far) and the desktop stuff, which is now Intel based. Since Apple have development environments for both sets, it's not a problem unless you want to switch binaries between one and the other - and that won't happen because it causes performance problems.
As to Apple dictating rules: all the various hardware bits need to talk to each other, be quiet (in terms of interference) and have superior performance in a highly competitive market: The mobile phone market is certainly the future, but the demands of 1Mb/sec downloads (which is where they're headed in the next couple of years) are difficult; Apple would certainly do well to buy in that technology rather than build it - for at least the first few years, anyway. The CPU is well-understood, but high-frequency wireless is the biggest challenge for electronics engineers. Those guys are awesome.
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