“Speculation remains high about a possible Apple-Intel chip-making deal,” Jeffrey Burt reports for eWeek.
“In a June 6 research note, Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung echoes what others have said, that Intel might enter into a deal with Apple to make the chips that power such devices as the iPhone and iPad tablet,” Burt reports. “Those chips—including the A4 and A5—currently are made by Samsung based on designs by ARM Holdings.”
Burt reports, “Yeung wrote that Intel initially could build those same chips using the ARM designs, but with the idea that eventually Apple would migrate over to Intel’s low-power x86-based chips within the next few years.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]