Apple's research and development teams are certainly considering ways in which they can engage the processor design expertise recently bought in-house on strength of the PA Semi purchase.
“PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the New York Times in June - but the Apple rumpur machine has already moved into overdrive, with the most recent speculation claiming the company's boffins are now looking to develop a small processor that would be capable of QuickTime encoding and decoding.
Now, we're not at all utterly convinced that the source of this new wave of speculation (Alley Insider) has got the wh
