iPhone Processor Source : Cambridge, UK 5 - California, USA 0
Forgive me as a true Brit, a little gloating in the iPhone processor source stakes:
Even more interesting is the last time that Apple launched a product predominately based upon Acorn technology – it turned out to be one of the biggest flops in computer industry history and paved the way for the return of Jobs.
Will it be flop #2 or a testament to timing and marketing brilliance of Jobs? Tune in this time, next year for the answer…
- Applications Processor: Samsung – ARM11
- Baseband Processor: Infineon – ARM926
- WiFi Processor: Marvell – ARM946
- Bluetooth Processor: CSR – XAP
- Broadcom touchscreen controller – Broadcom Inhouse (team located in Cambridge)
Even more interesting is the last time that Apple launched a product predominately based upon Acorn technology – it turned out to be one of the biggest flops in computer industry history and paved the way for the return of Jobs.
Will it be flop #2 or a testament to timing and marketing brilliance of Jobs? Tune in this time, next year for the answer…
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