Intrinsity Absorption
The respected publisher The New York Times yesterday confirmed the purchase of Intrinsity by the giant Apple. What I already wrote about is beginning to materialize, albeit in a different way. Instead of trying to absorb ARM Holdings, Apple took up strategic buy-out of companies one way or another connected with processors.
The first rumors about this deal appeared two weeks ago, when several Intrinsity employees changed their employer accounts in their LinkedIn accounts, but in such a situation one cannot be sure whether they are joking or seriously. It turned out that everything is serious. With the greatest likelihood, it was this office that developed the A4 processor for the iPad. To be precise, the processing of the already existing A8 Hummingbird CPU to the requests of the apple company.
A funny story is also associated with this “bird” - in July 2009, Intrinsity, together with Samsung, announced its chip, which in essence is a processing of the ARM Cortex A8 architecture. The differences are quite significant, since Intrinsity made the chip not only more powerful (1 GHz) and more advanced in terms of technology (45 nm), but also “flexible”, allowing customers, for example, to vary the L2 cache size depending on requests to performance.
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The essence of the deal? Instrinsity was a supplier company operating for the entire market. By purchasing it, Apple closed access to other interested persons for the chips on which its products operate. Naturally, the guys will continue to work on mobile processors, although any details are now unlikely to flow out from behind the Apple gate. At this rate, in a couple of years, a well-known company can gather, let's say, “proprietise” the majority of “its own” CPU and GPU manufacturers, under its wings.
NYT via Engadget & ArsTechnica
The first rumors about this deal appeared two weeks ago, when several Intrinsity employees changed their employer accounts in their LinkedIn accounts, but in such a situation one cannot be sure whether they are joking or seriously. It turned out that everything is serious. With the greatest likelihood, it was this office that developed the A4 processor for the iPad. To be precise, the processing of the already existing A8 Hummingbird CPU to the requests of the apple company.
A funny story is also associated with this “bird” - in July 2009, Intrinsity, together with Samsung, announced its chip, which in essence is a processing of the ARM Cortex A8 architecture. The differences are quite significant, since Intrinsity made the chip not only more powerful (1 GHz) and more advanced in terms of technology (45 nm), but also “flexible”, allowing customers, for example, to vary the L2 cache size depending on requests to performance.
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The essence of the deal? Instrinsity was a supplier company operating for the entire market. By purchasing it, Apple closed access to other interested persons for the chips on which its products operate. Naturally, the guys will continue to work on mobile processors, although any details are now unlikely to flow out from behind the Apple gate. At this rate, in a couple of years, a well-known company can gather, let's say, “proprietise” the majority of “its own” CPU and GPU manufacturers, under its wings.
NYT via Engadget & ArsTechnica
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/92250/
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