The idea that it will, at some point in the near future, start making the processing chips for Apple.
Samsung has gained approval to expand the chip plant in Texas where it manufactures the processing chips for Apple.
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Often that includes processing 100 trades a minute in Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Computer.
Often that includes processing 100 trades a minute in Apple Computer.
But Microsoft had identified others, including Sun Microsystems's Java technologies, Intel's Native Signal Processing, and multimedia playback software developed by Apple and RealNetworks.
In dispute is an image-preview patent, obtained by Kodak in 2001 and which, according to Bloomberg, would allow Apple and RIM to use less processing power and storage space in their iPhone and Blackberry smartphones.
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As part and parcel of this Apple has brought the design of its processing chips inhouse.
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Fact is, if you want to use your computer for much of anything beyond word processing, number crunching or surfing the web, having an Apple computer is an enormous liability.
Neither issue's a deal-breaker, but it's a little disappointing that something this physically big, not doing any serious local processing, can only manage half the battery life of something like Apple's iPad playing a game like Riptide GP.
Intel is due to unveil a variety of cellphone and other portable device storage and processing chips, some of which are bound to end up in future Apple products.
While other technology companies focused on spreadsheets and processing speeds, while IBM and Burroughs built systems for tasks people had to do, Apple made very personal devices to help people do what they wanted to do.
The fact is, packing that kind of processing down into a tablet that runs on batteries, is one more astonishing technical achievement on the part of Apple.
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