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An Apple Arm a day keeps the Intel away

Arm photo credit Jude Beck   Rumors of Apple designing and using its own CPU began back in 2008 when the company bought P.A. Semi, a 150-person chip company in Santa Clara, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. ...

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Arm photo credit Jude Beck   Rumors of Apple designing and using its own CPU began back in 2008 when the company bought P.A. Semi, a 150-person chip company in Santa Clara, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. In 2004 legendary Jim Keller moved to serve as the Vice President of Engineering at P.A. Semi. In early 2008 Keller moved to Apple, and P.A. Semi was acquired by Apple shortly afterwards. Small world, huh? The rumor continued to
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