[Dailydave] iPhone CPU

[Thomas Ptacek]

Our favorite Mac pundit John Gruber has the scoop:

http://daringfireball.net/2007/01/iphone_arm

The job posting seems like a smoking gun; it's ARM. So, I'm wrong 3
consecutive times!

On 1/11/07, Thomas Ptacek <tqbf at matasano.com> wrote:
> No question ARM is capable of running the iPhone, but OSX already
> supports x86 and PPC, both of which (particularly PPC) are viable in a
> phone setting.
>
> I've written ARM assembly too and have to ask, why do people like it so much?
>
> On 1/11/07, Jamie Riden <jamesr at europe.com> wrote:
> > On 11/01/07, Thomas Ptacek <tqbf at matasano.com> wrote:
> > > Ok, I'm going to extend my run of bad predictions and say that there's
> > > an x86 part in here, not an ARM.
> >
> > Quite possible it's ARM - I think ARM will handle the load quite
> > happily and as far as I'm informed, it's a lot nicer than x86 for
> > embedded stuff.  (I used to write assembly code for ARM2 and 3 and
> > it's a gorgeous instruction set to play with.)
> >
> > cheers,
> >  Jamie
> > --
> > Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr at europe.com / jamie.riden at gmail.com
> > NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/
> >
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