Google Acquires Chip Maker Startup Agnilux

bobwrit points out a story at PC Magazine, from which he extracts "Google has purchased Agnilux, a secretive chip house made up of engineers who architected the heart of the iPad, then left the company. Reuters' PEHub reported the story Tuesday night. A Google spokesman also confirmed the acquisition to PCMag.com. 'We're pleased to welcome the Agnilux team to Google, but we don't have any additional information to share right now,' a Google spokesman said Tuesday night via email."

Comments

Android

[Enderandrew]

Google wants to make phones, netbooks and tablets. They've been investing money in coding for ARM, but it makes sense to look into producing their own chips for these devices.

Re:Android

[Anonymous Coward]

The entire reason that Google is so successful is that these ads ARE effective, and measurably so.

Re:Android

[feranick]

Very possible. Even Microsoft (of all software houses), may be thinking along the same lines in a recent job posting...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/20/2134213/Job-Ad-Hints-At-Microsoft-Move-To-ARM-Servers

Re:Android

[Areyoukiddingme]

What's even more amusing is that some of the seed capital that founded ARM Holdings came from.... Apple corporation.

Re:"architected"?

[StrategicIrony]

I just looked and the Oxford dictionary recognizes it, and points to archived letters from Keats in 1813 using the word as a verb.

It was considered an "overly formal" usage for awhile, but I think the use in computer-speak has brought it back toward mainstream.

Re:Architected?

[Pulzar]

In ASIC world, to "design" means to write RTL code (and all that follows it) that matches the desired architecture. To "architect", means to write the high-level spec of what the design should look like.

It's not bullshit, it's the proper terminology for the topic at hand. You could argue that the terminology is lame or whatever, but it is what it is.