Apple Buy Instrinsity, High Speed Chip Manufacturer

SAN FRANCISCO, GadgetInfo – It’s not ARM but Intrinsity, the high-speed chip manufacturer, which was acquired by Apple. The purchase was already conducted in March 2010 but Apple just reveals it on Tuesday (27/04/2010), as reported by the New York Times. The news was leaked after some Intrinsity engineers caught changing his job status to be Apple employees.

Instrinsity is a small company in Austin, Texas that produces chips that used a lot in mobile phone. This is a second chip company Apple acquired after PA Semiconductor in 2008. The acquisition value was reported 121 million U.S. dollars although it has not been clarified by Apple.

Instrinsity managed to engineer the standard processors which usually at 650 MHz to 1000 MHz (1 GHz). Intrinsity can be said as the Apple hero that has succeeded to present the Apple's processor A4 with that speed.

Apple A4 chips which is PA Semiconductor development result after joining Apple has a 1 GHz speed thanks to the cooperation Intrinsity and Samsung.