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Taking Apart An Airport Extreme Base Station

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gettin-all-up-and-inside-that dept.

Farley Mullet writes "As seen on MacSlash, here is a link to page documenting one man's dissection of an Airport Extreme Base Station. It's pretty neat to see what Apple crammed in there, including (gasp!) a chip from AMD!"

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  1. why "gasp"? by Drakon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought it was common knowledge that AMD is in bed with apple...
    the dogs fight together against the wolf (intel)

    AFAIK there was a AMD embedded 486 in the original AirPort, and Apple is working with AMD on HyperX pci or some such, and so on and so forth

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    Buttsex.
  2. Gasp! by cscx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    AMD makes microcontrollers and all SORTS of different ICs. Gasp!

    Also Texas Instruments doesn't just make calculators, either...

  3. Re:strange bedfellows by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    AMD is the slut of microprocessor companies. They're making small deals left right and center, because that's the only way they have to dethrone Intel. By picking up the scraps

    Say what? Name a microprocessor company that doesn't have a diverse line of semiconductor products. Hell IBM makes PPC chips, helps AMD with their production of Athlon chips, makes embedded chips, makes their own x86 clone, makes POWER chips, DACs, and lord knows what else as they're one of the largest fabs out there. Intel makes/made ethernet chips, 802.11 chips, ARM, bubble memory, x86, etc. Motorola makes chips for cell phones, embedded processors, PPC, 68k (coldfire et.al), DSP, etc. How on earth is AMD any different?