Reports Say Apple May Manufacture Its Own Chips

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Posted by timothy on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:44PM from the jalapeno-flavored-are-great dept.

afabbro writes "There are scattered reports today that Apple is building a team to design its own chips, with an eye towards reducing power consumption on iPods and iPhones."

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In other reports... (Score:5, Funny)

by ravenspear ( 756059 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:47PM (#27777647)

It was actually revealed that their real motivation behind the Apple team's efforts is to build an uber sophisticated intelligent computer system capable of downloading Steve Jobs' brain in case he becomes too ill to continue his role as RDF overlor...er...CEO.

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Re:design it's own chips, not manufacture (Score:2, Funny)

by oldhack ( 1037484 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:50PM (#27777689)

No, timothy meant "iManufacture". Spelling error, you see.

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Re:In other reports... (Score:3, Funny)

by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:52PM (#27777709)

Don't forget the Apple sticker to put on the outside of the brain case. :P

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Re:In other reports... (Score:5, Funny)

by jDeepbeep ( 913892 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:53PM (#27777729)

It was actually revealed that their real motivation behind the Apple team's efforts is to build an uber sophisticated intelligent computer system capable of downloading Steve Jobs' brain in case he becomes too ill to continue his role as RDF overlor...er...CEO.
I, for one, welcome our new mock-turtlenecked overlord.

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Apple Product Cycle revisions (Score:4, Funny)

by nlawalker ( 804108 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:55PM (#27777749)

Looks like the Apple Product Cycle [misterbg.org] may have to be revised slightly.

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Apple chips (Score:4, Funny)

by Hatta ( 162192 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:03PM (#27777873) Journal

What kind of dip goes with that?

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Re:It didn't work for microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:18PM (#27778035)

Mini was zippy? My friend, in a Mac world the correct term is "snappy". Amateur!

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Apple chips? (Score:3, Funny)

by Locke2005 ( 849178 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:19PM (#27778045)

It's already been done. Pictures of the new chips are available here [taquitos.net] and here [taquitos.net]

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Re:Apple chips? (Score:4, Funny)

by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:26PM (#27778151) Homepage Journal

I know for a fact that those chips are from a different company! Do Apple's lawyers know about this?

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Re:it seems that this will be a variant of the ARM (Score:5, Funny)

by CopaceticOpus ( 965603 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:26PM (#27778161)

Yes, at last Apple will step out from under Dell's shadow!

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Re:Apple chips (Score:5, Funny)

by An ominous Cow art ( 320322 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:33PM (#27778285) Journal

This [wikipedia.org] kind, of course.

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Re:It didn't work for microsoft... (Score:3, Funny)

by Divebus ( 860563 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:33PM (#27778289)

Why don't we list other things that didn't work for Microsoft.
Who has that kind of time? An even bigger challenge is to figure out why people bought it anyway.

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Re:innovation, custom chips == !hackintosh (Score:4, Funny)

by binarylarry ( 1338699 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:46PM (#27778565)

I can see it now:
Apple Strategic Planning Meeting
Steve Jobs: "So, from this point on, we'll build our own iProcessors, "
Edward Applebee: "But sir, then our macs won't be able to run windows!"
Steve Jobs: "Hey... you next to Edward, I want you to go over and hit that fucker in the face, really fucking hard!"

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Re:It didn't work for microsoft... (Score:3, Funny)

by DCstewieG ( 824956 ) writes: on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:54PM (#27778715)

Maybe he hadn't updated Safari yet...

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In other reports... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:design it's own chips, not manufacture (Score:2, Funny)

Re:In other reports... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:In other reports... (Score:5, Funny)

Apple Product Cycle revisions (Score:4, Funny)

Apple chips (Score:4, Funny)

Re:It didn't work for microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)

Apple chips? (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:it seems that this will be a variant of the ARM (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Apple chips (Score:5, Funny)

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