The mystery Apple chip plot thickens today with the news that the company has poached the CTO of AMD’s Graphics Products Group, Bob Drebin. The million dollar question is, what will Drebin do for Apple as Senior Director?
When Apple bought low-power processor maker PA Semi just over a year ago, it sparked a ton of speculation that the company would get into designing its own chips, most likely for its iPhone and iPod lines. I speculated that Apple would probably get into designing custom, ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) parts for its handhelds, and then later in the year we got even more evidence that this is what Cupertino had in mind with the purchase.
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