P.A. Semi
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P.A. Semi is a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha and StrongARM processors. The company has a 150 man engineering team which includes people who've previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSparc.
P.A. Semi concentrates on making powerful and power efficient Power Architecture processors called PWRficient, based on the PA6T processor core. The PA6T will be the first Power Architecture core to be designed from scratch outside the AIM alliance (ie not by IBM, Motorola/Freescale or Apple Computer) in ten years. Texas Instruments is one of the investors in P.A. Semi and it is suggested that their fabrication plants will be used to manufacture the PWRficient processors.[1]
PWRficient processors are currently shipping to select customers and are set to be released for world wide sale sale in Q4 2007.[2]
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- ^ PA Semi heads to 16 cores on back of $50m boost. The Register. Retrieved on October 17, 2006.
- ^ Press release. P.A. Semi. Retrieved on February 7, 2007.
