P.A. Semi , the crisp design company Applepicked up for a Song dynasty , is best know for its super - effective PWRficient processor , a PowerPC variant . One of the fully grown customers for the CPU is theDepartment of Defense , which make economic consumption of it in program in every major subdivision of the military , and they ’re not thrilled by the possible action of Apple terminate production of the chips .
https://gizmodo.com/apple-buys-itself-a-little-chip-company-known-for-super-382929
Ten defense systems , to the tune of $ 100 million in mathematical product over the next four age , apply P.A. Semi ’s PWRficient CPU . On Monday , P.A. Semi told its customers they were being acquired and could n’t guarantee chip supplies any longer . ( Brings us back to theproblem of obsolete techin the military machine . )
https://gizmodo.com/the-massive-expensive-problem-of-obsolete-tech-382621
It ’s potential the licensing way out could get work out to maintain provision “ on an closing - of - life ground ” but in that same statement , P.A. noted that their vendee ( Apple ) was n’t interested in their product or roadmap , just their IP and applied science skills . Which stand for Apple has no stake in anything their currently constitute or about to make , despite Blam ’s reasonable assumption that was the case . So it ’s all about their design chops , or they really are just a bargaining buffalo chip . [ EETimesviaGigaOM ]
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