Apple buys chip-maker Intrinsity
May 1, 2010 consumer electronics, gadgets, phones
Well, it’s not ARM Holdings, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) did centering up a chipping-maker called Intrinsity in ordering to encouragement its mobile processors.
The trade was fool change to Apple, $121 meg or so, and it could help the troupe maintain a lead on the computer hardware position because the small, capital of Texas-based company was known for optimizing the horsepower of mobile processors. According to The New York Times:
The speeding of mobile gimmick chips are typically measured in MHz, and ace of the more popular chips on the marketplace usually runs at about 650 megahertz. Intrinsity’s engineers found a way to starter that speeding up to 1000 megahertz, which happens to be the same speed as the A4 in the iPad.
Intrinsity has been working with a division of Samsung that manufactures chips on this speedy merchandise. The same division of Samsung built the A4 chipping for Apple, according to Chipworks, a firm that turnabout-engineers and analyzes technology products.
By getting Intrinsity, Apple would be able to hold that 350 megahertz edge to itself.
The ARM buyout never really made gumption because it would have monetary value nearly $8 one thousand million and Apple’s stylus has generally been to bargain smaller, talented companies and grow them within Apple’s womb. This is what happened when it purchased P.A. Semi for less than $300 million in 2008 and it put that troupe to work with the A4 chip that’s in the iPad. This seems like a solid move for Apple to get more of its hardware in-house.
When you’re blowing out living quarters like Apple is, you have the freedom to make acquisitions like this. I commend them for having the restraint to not just shuffle a big, splashy move because it can. Another big baller, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), is also in the thick of an attainment storm, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a counterpunch move coming to light in the near future tense.
[Via The New House of York Times]
Tags: apple, chips, consumer electronics, erica ogg, gadgets, intrinsity, mergers and acquisitions, pcs
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