Rumor: Apple + AMD

[Mini 9]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/...chips.html

[DP]

Thought they would've done that instead of giving Intel their (our) money. But, hey, that's just capitalism.

[microchip]

I strongly doubt it, at least in the reasonably foreseeable future. AMD's chip power consumptions aren't anywhere near Intel's.

[Doc]

With AMD's $6.5 billion market cap, Apple could easily buy AMD.

They'd have the mobile processors via P.A. Semi, the CPUs via AMD and the GPUs via AMD/ATI.

Of course, then they'd need to acquire LG so they could make their own LCD panels.

And Samsung so that they could make their own memory.

And Foxconn to make the enclosures and assemble the final products.

And then they would rule the world.

[Go To Top]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=intel+amd+apple

Maybe buy Intel??????

[ztirffritz]

I just read another rumor article that the A4 chip in the iPad isn't an ARM CPU, but actually it is a Power CPU from PASemi that is emulating ARM. The same article also states that this is the real reason why Apple is hurding devs to use XCode development tools instead of 3rd party apps. The article suspects that yet another CPU platform change is on the horizon. If everyone is using X Code to develop their apps then a quick recompile is all that is needed. If they are using 3rd party tools (CS5, Unity, etc) then the devs will be forced to re-write the entire app.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog...nts/24825/

[Mini 9]

THIS is the type of stuff that I hope someone writes a good book about after Steve passes (not wishing it). Fly on the wall type desire.

[Doc]

ztirffritz wrote:
I just read another rumor article that the A4 chip in the iPad isn't an ARM CPU, but actually it is a Power CPU from PASemi that is emulating ARM. The same article also states that this is the real reason why Apple is hurding devs to use XCode development tools instead of 3rd party apps. The article suspects that yet another CPU platform change is on the horizon. If everyone is using X Code to develop their apps then a quick recompile is all that is needed. If they are using 3rd party tools (CS5, Unity, etc) then the devs will be forced to re-write the entire app.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog...nts/24825/

The author is an imbecile. The post is entirely imbecilic speculation. He did no research whatsoever. He never bothered to Google for info on the chip.

The compiled code is ARM, not PPC. Debugging errors are ARM. Speed tests conform to native ARM execution, not emulation. Battery life matches exactly what one would expect with the Cortex A8 (ARM). And most damning of all, the X-rays and dissection indicate that it's an ARM with Samsung memory on the die just like the iPhone.

The only thing the author had right was that forcing developers to use Xcode makes it easier to switch architectures later, but that's kind of a "Duh! Who the heck didn't know that, you dumbass?" thing.