Re:IPhone: 4% of market, 50% of profit
by ergo98 on Sunday October 31, 2010 @03:13PM
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"What is "though they managed to brand it" supposed to mean anyway?"
When the A4 was introduced a lot of the speculation regarding it was incredible. What was this amazing new processor, people asked?
Apple, it was widely perceived, was suddenly a world leader in IC with this amazing new technology.
Only it turns out that it was a last generation Hummingbird processor designed by Samsung, though that gives Samsung too much credit given that it was a standard ARM core with a standard PowerVR GPU.
When the A4 was introduced a lot of the speculation regarding it was incredible. What was this amazing new processor, people asked?
Apple, it was widely perceived, was suddenly a world leader in IC with this amazing new technology.
Only it turns out that it was a last generation Hummingbird processor designed by Samsung, though that gives Samsung too much credit given that it was a standard ARM core with a standard PowerVR GPU.
Yet the myth persists.