[dsspence]

"Apple will be happy to take PC reference designs from Intel (or AMD?) and repackage them in nice mobile and desktop enclosures—effectively outsourcing PC R&D to the chipmaker—while focusing its own engineering efforts on differentiating its post-PC products from the rest of the market... a market that will soon include Intel-made smartphone reference designs."

Since when has Apple outsourced R&D of anything recently? Pretty sure the iPad A4 chip is not a repackaged Intel chip. The research and design that went into the unibody macbook pros doesn't seem like they are raising the white flag just yet either.

[ZeroGravitas]

Isn't the A4 just the Intrinsity/Samusung Hummingbird SoC as used in the new Samsung phones, except the Galaxy S et al have a better GPU than the Apple stuff. (Apple did buy Intrinsity but what impact that will have is for the future).