Title : Apple Shunned Superstar Chip Start-up for Intel 
Date : 2006-05-21 
Code : Did Apple make a mistake by switching to Intel? We may never know, but Apple had more options than has been previously reported, The Register can exclusively reveal. A chip start-up that created a high performance, low power processor compatible with existing Mac software had been <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/19/pasemi_apple/" target="blank">working closely</a> with the computer company for many months. "PA Semi was counting on that deal," said one source. "They had lots of guys walking around in a daze when Apple went to Intel. They had no idea that would actually happen." Ars's Hannibal, criticaster of Apple's reasoning to switch to Intel, also <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060520-6877.html" target="blank">expressed his thoughts</a> on this issue. 
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