Never ceases to amaze me how journalists can be dense. Apple hires the technical brain trust behind the XBox 360 and the conclusion is the company is doing an iphone?
Come back. Apple grabbed Bob Drebin, Raja Koduri, PA Semi, Mark Papermaster, some games you guys, and no doubt many others we have not heard. Which gives the ex-CTO of ATI, also ex-ArtX, GPU manufacturers Nintendo forever, and ATI "big thinker". Lets say that the GPU down there.
PA Semi has several low-power, high performance, modular PowerPC chips on the market now. Are basically SOC only a slap in the GPU (see last paragraph) and that has - wait for it - a console.
To have a successful console, you need software people. If you're going to do in a healthy manner, you may want a robust digital distribution and payment system. Something that looks a lot like iTunes. Could be built, but already the same. See a product from entry into focus yet?
Taking into account the time needed to make a console, especially considering that the hard parts are already done, could be less than year. Rate each of the greats of the next generation. As Nintendo has shown, there is no need to make a murderer specifications fun and generation of the main console.
The fanbois will work themselves into a froth over this, a game console pedestrians Messiah? Will it remain white and reassuringly expensive? They naturally do not believe that until the Dear Leader also behind hormone surgery, one on the waves on the stage - Atilla, who cares about them?
Analysts cry of "telephone," but none of these new hires have phone experience - and Apple has not been more vigorously recruiting phone / RF popular. It makes no sense for them to jump into the waters of phone chips, from the multitude of frequencies, the minefields of patents, obtuse and regulations around the world, is not worth it. You can buy the parts in the commodity market, so why make them? Apple also hired PPC people, not ARM, which itself should be revealing.
In the end, the course is clear. There was a lot of rumors circulating regarding the Apple Valley and consoles. Take a vastly underestimated the Mac Mini or Apple TV, in a draft PPC SoC low power with a strong GPU, the fire of itunes, and a console. Not only that, but snakes in the room below the MS. If you remember, which is why we developed the 360, to prevent the property from Sony link.
If you can not put the points together in this one, you really need to have their license revoked Internet, you are too blind to navigate. It is not a question of if, but when at the moment
I've read the news from hardware info. They was talking about new Athlon II X3 405e.