My strategy with any apple news: ignore it until its released or said from the horses mouth. Remember the iphones that had clickwheels like ipod rumors prior to the iphone? Thats what I consider this.
The clickwheel iphone "rumor", might have been true. During initial design of the original iPhone, both Scott Frostall (from Mac OS division), and Tony Fadell (from iPod division) were tasked with creation of iPhone. Both groups took their existing software (from iPod/Mac), and tuned it for a phone. Ultimately trimmed down OSX solution won over iPod's evolved firmware.
I was reverse engineering iPod video/classic firmware around 2005/2006, and I do remember seeing references to "iphone".
Sure it might have existed, but that isn't what was released. That version of the iphone might just have been a proof of concept or prototype, but it didn't end up a product.
It's not just feasible for Apple to develop new microarchitecture from scratch. Kalamata will license ARM technology. New microarchitecture takes 6-8 years to develop and it's huge investment even for companies like Intel, Amd and ARM.
Currently only Intel and Amd have high end desktops CPU's. ARM is likely enter as third with ARM architecture that Apple is licensing, but it will have relatively low performance.
Apple will likely take a hit in workstation markets for CAD and image processing application market but they are in the position to gain a lot in more common use cases if customers get better power/performance ratio.
My strategy with any apple news: ignore it until its released or said from the horses mouth. Remember the iphones that had clickwheels like ipod rumors prior to the iphone? Thats what I consider this.