P.A. Semi (originally "Palo Alto Semiconductor") was a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Daniel W. Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha 21064 and StrongARM processors. The company employed a 150-person engineering team which includes people who have previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC. Apple Inc acquired P.A. Semi for $278 million in April 2008. P.A.

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  • P.A. Semi (originally "Palo Alto Semiconductor") was a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Daniel W. Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha 21064 and StrongARM processors. The company employed a 150-person engineering team which includes people who have previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC. Apple Inc acquired P.A. Semi for $278 million in April 2008. P.A. Semi concentrated on making powerful and power-efficient Power Architecture processors called PWRficient, based on the PA6T processor core. The PA6T was the first Power Architecture core to be designed from scratch outside the AIM alliance in ten years. Texas Instruments was one of the investors in P.A. Semi and it is suggested that their fabrication plants will be used to manufacture the PWRficient processors. PWRficient processors are currently shipping to select customers and were set to be released for worldwide sale in Q4 2007. There were rumors that P.A. Semi had a relationship with Apple that suggested Apple would be the premiere user of the PWRficient processors. That relationship supposedly ended when Apple switched from the Power Architecture to Intel's Core processors for their entire line of computers.
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