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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Odds and ends

Apple plans to support the PA Semi chips for the military

A while back we noted that Apple had acquired the chip maker PA Semi, apparently to get its hands on the chip company's power efficient technology. Just after the deal was announced, however, there were some worries that the government might not let it go through because PA Semi's chips are used in a variety of military applications and Apple did not seem interested in keeping the actual chip fabrication going.

Now the Register reports that Apple is going to keep supporting chips (though it won't be introducing any new ones). I wonder if they'll include those free Apple stickers to put on the missiles?

[via MacNN]

Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone

Apple buys P. A. Semi, designer of ultra-efficient processors

Here's an interesting tidbit sure to stoke the rumor mill. Forbes is reporting that after negotiations in Uncle Steve's own home Apple has acquired the small Santa Clara chip company P. A. Semi founded by Dan Dobberpuhl, the former lead designer of the DEC Alpha and StrongARM processors. What's interesting about P. A. Semi's chips is their great power efficiency, on the order of "300% more efficient than any comparable chips" according to the company.

This of course has tongues wagging about future iPhone / iPod touch iterations which might use some of this highly efficient technology. The development is particularly interesting in light of Apple complete transition to Intel on the Mac, and perhaps suggests that its mobile platforms will be going in a different (more traditionally Apple) direction. Given Apple's proven ability to have OS X running on multiple underlying architectures, however, it not that surprising that Apple might like to retain more control over handheld hardware than it can on the desktop.

[via Gizmodo]

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