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dehrmann on June 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about ...

> And the iPhone happened. Given Apple an almost endless supply of money and a huge volume. Over many years, Apple built up a leading chip-design team.

I'm not sure if this is the case, but my read on it was always that Apple bought PA Semi to bootstrap its chip design efforts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

_ph_ on June 20, 2020 [–]

Yes, they certainly started with the team from PA Semi. But by now their chip department is a multiple of that.

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