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I remember people being flabbergasted by the price they paid for PA Semi. Dividing the price by the number of engineers seemed indeed ludicrous. And yet, here we are.

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At the time, there were only 3 comments on HN I could find. One of them was certainly questioning the decision: [1]

But wmf was right on the money [2]: "Maybe Apple thinks they can outdo the Cortex".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171511

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171879

I'm amused to see 'wmf commenting today about M1 ;)

Who is wmf?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wmf

Good find. I was a lot more focused on PPC back then. After Apple switched to Intel, I didn’t really see the reason for PA Semi’s acquisition.

The iPhone’s magic was all about the software to me.

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