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Clues That Apple's Bought Another Processor Design House
According to Ars Technica: "Apple's gigantic bankroll may be burning a hole in its pocket. Almost two years after purchasing PowerPC designer P.A. Semi, Apple appears to have snapped up ARM design house Intrinsity. According to a report that first appeared on electronista, a number of engineers at the company have indicated that they are now or soon will be employed by Apple. Some of them have even gone as far as to change their LinkedIn profiles, with one reverting it, possibly out of fear of drawing the wrath of his new, secretive employer." Updated 20100404 1:15 GMT Brian Dipert points out the earlier coverage at EDN, from which both of the above reports draw.
no they are far bigger assholes then MS ever were. apple is a sue happy company that redefines vendor lock in.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
The user interface is perhaps the single most important substantive component of the computing experience, yet posters like you routinely pretend as if it isn't even there.
Right, but we all know that software developers and sophisticated manufacturing processes cost nothing, right?
These trolls act like developing OS X costed nothing (after all, its "just BSD," right? with a fancy UI that any 12 year old kiddo can draw, right?), that OS research, compiler research, writing browsers (even with an originally lifted codebase), doing usability studies is all done for free...
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