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Jun 01, 09 - 08:45 am Comment from: Road Warrior

Well following the acquisitions it should be clear to all (save for analysts) that Apple is not buying "finished" product type companies when it comes to hardware, but rather chip makers.

Oh yeah, way back to the first post.

Jun 01, 09 - 08:45 am Comment from: breeze

and when Apple's new chip hit's the market running in it's new panel, again it will be years ahead of the competition...

Jun 01, 09 - 09:20 am Comment from: NCIceman

The wheel turns....there will always be a new processor on the horizon, and multiple cores is inevitable...

Jun 01, 09 - 09:22 am Comment from: eMax

Well considering how this entire thing about PA semi being directly related to iphone CPU is PURE speculation, so is the rest of this article. Its quite amazing how people will use Apple in the headline just to get an article and think its news.



"THIS JUST IN: Apple's unconfirmed internal beta program of a new iMac model is yet to be completed. Apple probably wont release news of this new model just yet..."

"Well considering how this entire thing about PA semi being directly related to iphone CPU is PURE speculation, so is the rest of this article. Its quite amazing how people will use Apple in the headline just to get an article and think its news."


no, jobs confirmed in tv interview the pa semi acquisition was directly for the iphone 'and other mobile devices'

It seems like the PA Semi chip could be destined for a product similar to qualcom's smartbook, running iPhone osx.

Nobody knows when Apple startet to work on his own mobile processor. Maybe they bought PA Semi just to hurry up the development to their near finished project.
The developement circle get faster and faster in the mobile world and maybe in the next year or two INTEL is ready for primetime in the smartphone market.

Jun 01, 09 - 10:28 am Comment from: Admiral X

Why would Apple need to "drop subtle hints?" iPhone OS is based on Mac OS X. Key feature in Snow Leopard is Grand Central, which distributes tasks between all processors in the machine at the OS level, requiring developers to do next to nothing. If iPhone OS is a subset of Mac OS X, then why would iPhone OS not get these APIs as well?

1 + 1 still == 2, even on Wall Street. If these analysts spent more time actually watching Apple and putting things together than idly speculating, they'd sound less like they don't have a clue.

Peter hits the nail here, if PA Semi were already doing work before being bought out then it is feasible that a processor could be ready now, however if not then next spring is probably the earliest we could expect production ready chips. However if the latter was the case and accepting the fact that PA is not a fabricator I would be surprised if information on production aspects of any imminent processor would not have escaped by now.

Either way it adds nothing to the knowledge base available about any new products that might use them and any such processor family would no doubt be used in iPhones/Touch AND any additional products in and around that category. What's more, any mk1 version of a new product could still use another ARM processor until any PA Semi product is ready. So all we are left with is speculation based on virtually no information at all.

Good grief! I thought they were ready with the new processor. Well, I hope when they are finally done that the payoff is worth it. Because in the meantime that faster than the old iphone processor they may have for June 8th will not give them much of an edge over the competition........hardware-wise anyway.

Jun 01, 09 - 01:57 pm Comment from: Cubert

NCIceman,
"and multiple cores is inevitable"

Don't you mean, "and multiple cores are imminent"?

Jun 01, 09 - 01:59 pm Comment from: Cubert

The PA Semi processors probably won't be introduced until WWDC 2010.

Along with the iMonolith.

Jun 01, 09 - 04:03 pm Comment from: Brau

Apple made it clear why they bought PA Semi "So we can develop devices with features that others cannot simply copy with a software update". I'm very much looking forward to that and whatever they have up their sleeve.