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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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