The Apple 1,000 engineers working on a processor

At the time, until all reflect on the future of Apple without Steve JobsWe learned one interesting fact from a man who was lucky enough to chat with Steve before his departure from the post of CEO at Apple. It turned out that Apple to develop new chip employs more than 1,000 people. The main direction of the development is to reduce the power consumption and size.

Apple created its own team to develop the chips back in 2009, but few expected that its population is so high. In total, the corporation employs more than 50,000 people, with 30,000 of them work in the field of sales. The main reason for the start of their own development was the fact that Intel and AMD products focused on the personal computer market. Apple processors were required with high capacity, but having a very low power consumption.

Battery life - one of the most important indicators for any mobile device. The introduction of the new iPhone 4S A5 processor is not only double the performance of the device, but also significantly increased its operating time (from 7 to 8 hours of talk time).

Another trend has been the replacement of the hard drive in to flash memory devices. If earlier it was used in the iPhone and iPad, and now laptops MacBook Air equipped with similar memory. This approach eliminates the dependence on the form factor of the device produced. In addition to smart phones and tablets, you can put a similar filling in televisions and any other product. Everything is limited only by imagination of Apple engineers and the expected demand for the new device.

When Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, he said that the best and Apple bright days are still ahead. Now it becomes clear what he was saying. The company itself was the best of his invention. As well as among many Apple products, most of all goes well between them: the creation and production of chips, components, software, design, perfectly worked out mechanisms production and sales.

It is worth remembering that the era of the replacement of personal computers with new generations of devices has only just begun. Computers appear to us in ever new incarnations. Of course, if you can put the computer in anything, that does not mean that you should do it. It is also one of the main principles of Apple. But given the pace of development of mobile technology industry, we can expect that in the future we are waiting for the new revolutionary device.

[via TechCrunch]