{"id":35672,"date":"2011-10-10T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35672"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:13:05","slug":"apple-has-1000-mobile-chip-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/35672-apple-has-1000-mobile-chip-engineers.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple has 1000 mobile chip engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a TechCrunch report, the recently deceased <a title=\"Steve Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340669-Steve-Jobs\">Steve Jobs<\/a> told an unidentified Silicon Valley CEO that <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has 1000 engineers working on improving mobile processor technology.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified CEO went on, \u201cGetting low power and smaller is the key to everything, form factor no longer becomes an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple has reportedly increased its in-house processor focus, following the acquisition of two chipmakers. In 2008 Apple bought PA Semi, a low power chip firm who first began designing low power chips based on the Power architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Apple then purchased chipmaker Intrinsity is 2010. Intrinsity had previously worked with Samsung to boost processor performance on mobile chips.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-20117856-37\/apple-has-1000-engineers-working-on-chips-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five percent of Apple\u2019s workforce focuses on improving the company\u2019s mobile processors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,5524,5526,609],"class_list":["post-35672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-intrinsity","tag-pa-semi","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35674,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35672\/revisions\/35674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}