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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12077 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Who actually makes the chips for Apple?

    I guess it's still the same company that manufactured the PA6T on behalf of P.A.Semi and which I mentioned 3 days ago. But there's a chance that they switched fabs. The Apple A4 is produced by Samsung for instance (A4 has (ex-)Intrinsity's/Samsung's Hummingbird core (enhanced ARM Cortex-A8 core) with on-chip peripherals probably designed by the former P.A.Semi team (except for the GPU)).

    > Why don't we make our own PowerPC CPU? [...] Really, could it be possible [...]?

    Last time I looked you had to acquire an architectural license from IBM to do that in a legal way.
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