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Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era by GeekyBear on Thursday August 29, 2024 @04:34PM (#41395003)
Apple designs their own chips now. but the original iPhone, used a Samsung chip.

Intel didn't just miss out on business as a fab, Apple would have used their chip design as well.

Which leads you to wonder if Apple still would have begun designing chips themselves, if Intel had put some real effort into designing mobile chips.

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Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era by unsignedchar on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:18PM (#41404069)
The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch
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Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era by GeekyBear on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:09AM (#41408278)
Sure, but Apple had gone public with the iPhone announcement over a year before that.

I think it's safe to say that they had already selected their CPU before they did a public demo of the device.

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