The WSJ reports that Apple is putting together an all-star chip design team, starting with the former CTO of AMD, to work on in-house chips for mobile devices. Old habits die hard, I guess. Apple is prone to occasional fits of vertical integration , and has never been terribly reluctant to run counter to the prevailing hardware winds, but this doesn’t sound like some Jobsian act of contrarianism: the report indicates that its the iPhone’s unique power and performance demands that are dr
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