“With every iPod model set to adopt a color screen this year, Apple appears ready to expand the music player’s extra capabilities, especially its bundled games,” Ryan Katz reports for Think Secret. “A recent job posting from Apple on Gamasutra, a recruiting site for the game industry, seeks a programmer with ‘experience working with embedded systems’ who would in part be ‘responsible for rapidly developing memory and performance optimized software solutions to complex problems.'”
“More intriguing than the general job description and qualifications are the optional qualifications, which include ‘ARM7 RISC processor experience.’ Apple’s iPods are powered by a chip from PortalPlayer that is based on the 32-bit ARM7 processor,” Katz reports.
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