http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/04/23/apple-purchases-powerpc-chipmaker-pa-semi/ Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/04/23/apple-purchases-powerpc-chipmaker-pa-semi/comment-page-1/#comment-22665 Apple » Blog Archive » Apple Purchases PowerPC Chipmaker PA Semi Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:54:24 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/04/23/apple-purchases-powerpc-chipmaker-pa-semi/#comment-22665 [...] Folha Online - Blogs - Circuito Integrado wrote an interesting post today on Apple Purchases PowerPC Chipmaker PA SemiHere’s a quick excerpt So, we all thought that Apple’s days with the PowerPC CPU were behind it and that all future devices would be based on Intel processors. We might have been wrong! According to reports, Apple has purchased for $278 million cash a semiconductor company, PA Semi, which designs energy efficient CPUs based on IBM’s PowerPC architecture. Yes, the same type of processor that Apple used in its product for many a year. The same type of processor that universal binary applications would still be able to [...] [...] Folha Online – Blogs – Circuito Integrado wrote an interesting post today on Apple Purchases PowerPC Chipmaker PA SemiHere’s a quick excerpt So, we all thought that Apple’s days with the PowerPC CPU were behind it and that all future devices would be based on Intel processors. We might have been wrong! According to reports, Apple has purchased for $278 million cash a semiconductor company, PA Semi, which designs energy efficient CPUs based on IBM’s PowerPC architecture. Yes, the same type of processor that Apple used in its product for many a year. The same type of processor that universal binary applications would still be able to [...]

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