Apple To Dip Into Chips?

Friday, May 01, 2009 – Rumor has it that Apple is planning on designing their own chips.
With a move like this, Apple will provide exclusive features to their devices that they make
As Apple has been sited with job postings for chip design engineers and anyone that has expierence with chip design. Silicon Valley’s work force is where Apple has been tapping into to creat the team of people to create a chip for the iPhone. Apple is reaching out via website too.

Apples push to get employees is not only doing great things to help the economy with jobs, but also make Apples iPhone and iPod have more capabilities for advancement in graphics and power efficience.

This plan will bring Apple a peak above the other market companies out there that hire outside chip work from other suppliers. This will show Apple’s strength to the market.
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The same report stated that this will help Apple beat the other competition to the advancement of features for devices, due to the internal chip production.

The Inquirerer has reported that Bob Drebin, the designer of the GameCubes graphic chip; has been hired by Apple to be the Senior Director. Raja Koduri is also planning on starting on board with Apple this week. Raja Koduri is the former CTO for Advanced Micor Devices.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , the newly designed products will not come out until sometime next year