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Daily Update for February 7, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Apple intern thesis bears on porting Darwin to ARMv5 chips

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 7th, 2012)

Two years ago, Tristan Schaap joined Apple's Platform Technologies Group as an intern. During his 12-week stint with the Core OS division, he worked on a project to get a piece of Mac OS X running on an ARM processor, says a report by iMore. Most people were not aware of this project until ...

ARM revenue jumps thanks to Apple, Samsung

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 1st, 2012)

Everyone knows that Apple did exceptionally well in the 2011 calendar year. Its revenues are up, its cash reserves are about to break the US$100 billion mark and its stock price is hovering around $455. This boom is not only beneficial for Apple, but, as Electronista points out, it's also a ...

Support for quad-core ARM CPU shows up in Apple's Xcode

by Steven Sande (Sep 23rd, 2011)

The default compiler in Apple's Xcode developer tools is the LLVM-based Clang. Ars Technica reports that they received a heads-up from a developer who works on low-level ARM assembly coding that the latest version of Clang in Xcode adds support for a quad-core, ARM-based processor from Marvell ...

NVIDIA CEO sees the MacBook Air as the future of laptop design

by TJ Luoma (Feb 17th, 2011)

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has seen the future, and it is ... Apple's present. He believes that in a few years, you'll have trouble finding a computer that doesn't look like today's MacBook Air. At the risk of offending the power users out there who can't imagine using such a "weak" machine as the ...

Intel CEO: 'Simplistic' Apple TV is for 'mom'

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 14th, 2010)

With the recent announcement of Apple's new, improved Apple TV, there's been a lot of talk as to whether it will meet consumers' demands and expectations, not to mention how it will fare following the arrival of Google's competing TV device. According to Electronista, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said ...

Why Apple might want to buy ARM

by Sang Tang (Apr 22nd, 2010)

--- Last January, Apple COO Tim Cook stated, "We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make." That motivation, backed by Apple's 41 billion cash on hand, makes its rumored acquisition of ARM Holdings so compelling. --- What would you do if you had ...

UK rumor has Apple eyeing takeover of ARM

by Ken Ray (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Say hello to the rumor du jour: Apple is considering a bid for ARM Holdings. The Web site for the London Evening Standard says that investors across the pond seem to like the Apple/ARM idea; so much so that shares of the chip designer jumped from by 8 pence to just over £2.51 by midday, a 3.2% ...

Ars: Apple A4 CPU is a "feature-stripped ARM Cortex A8"

by Steven Sande (Mar 1st, 2010)

While much of the speculation over the iPad's Apple A4 CPU has been focused on the fact that it was a system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by the minds acquired from P.A. Semi, Ars Technica's Jon Stokes has another take on the story. In a Sunday post, Stokes (who claims to have an inside scoop) notes ...

What exact processor is inside the new iPod touch? TUAW digs deeper

by Joachim Bean (Sep 14th, 2009)

Sure, the biggest mystery around the new iPod touch is the omission of the heavily-rumored camera, like the one found on the new iPod nano. However, there is some speculation and wondering in what is actually at the heart of the new iPod touch. As you may know, all devices that run iPhone OS are ...

iPhone 3G S In Depth: Why the 'S' means more than 'Speed'

by Michael Jones (Jun 11th, 2009)

What makes up a rumor? The common recipe starts with some truth or factual information, adds a healthy dose of hearsay, and then gets topped off with a 'pinch of this and a dash of that.' Then someone else starts with that entire rumor as their 'factual information', and adds to it from there. ...

Apple's call to ARM

by Robert Palmer (Dec 8th, 2008)

Computerworld's Seth Weintraub speculates that Apple will choose ARM processors for a rumored upcoming tablet or netbook, versus an Intel processor of the same caliber. He cites several reasons, including the acquisition of PA Semi, cost, size, and power efficiency as evidence of the likelihood that ...

PA Semi team creating new ARM-based iPhone CPU

by Robert Palmer (Sep 15th, 2008)

Apple Senior Manager Wei-han Lien let slip that teams acquired with the purchase of PA Semi are working on an ARM-based processor for the iPhone, and possibly other devices, according to The New York Times. While not a huge surprise, as Steve himself said that's what the former PA Semi staff was ...

New hybrid ARM CPU/video chip debuts

by Erica Sadun (Feb 11th, 2008)

Yummy news on the chip front today. (Not so much on the fish front, but Apple's never been big on the iCod.) Samsung recently introduced the S3C6410, a hybrid processor that merges a sweet 667MHZ ARM CPU with a cool multi-format video decoder that handles H.264, MPEG-4 and VC-1. By offloading all ...

ARM holdings confirms iPhone chips

by Erica Sadun (Feb 7th, 2007)

InformationWeek reports that Warren East, president and CEO of ARM Holdings, confirmed that the iPhone will use at least three ARM processors. The main CPU will reportedly be a PXA320. So does this tell us anything new and important about the iPhone internals? Er, probably not much. But for those ...

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