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April 24, 2008

Apple Forks Over $278M For PA Semi

Apple Computer is set to pay $278M to buy PA Semi. Santa Clara-based PA Semi's chips are designed for the embedded computing market. PA Semi is venture backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, Venrock Associates, and Focus Ventures.

Back in 2005, we wrote up PA Semi: "The talk of the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose is the emergence from 2 years in stealth mode of the tiny firm P.A. Semi. The outfit's frontman is Dan Dobberpuhl, the lead designer of the DEC Alpha series of microprocessors, the ultra-power-efficient StrongARM microprocessors. Like that chip, PA Semi has power consumption in its cross-hairs. The company's PR gears have been smoking with articles everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to PCWorld to the IEEE SSSC."

Only a handful of people know what Apple will do with PA Semi. Now that Apple is using chips from Intel and given that PA Semi has not focused on Intel chips, change is brewing.

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Posted on April 24, 2008 01:40 AM | Posted to Semiconductors | Permalink

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