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by akuma73 955 days ago
A lot of ex-Alpha engineers went to PA-Semi which Apple then acquired. Those people are responsible for the epic custom Apple ARM CPUs.
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deaddodo 955 days ago
A lot of the Alpha engineers (including Keller) went to AMD and made the Athlon. The Athlon (K7/K8, specifically) was/is considered the spiritual successor to the 21264, by many. But yeah, many ended up looping around to PA Semi (again, including Keller).
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chasil 955 days ago
Like I said, DEC also did StrongARM, which probably gave designers in many areas a new perspective.
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