Sybreon is disappointed with Theo Valich’ information that the Apple A4 chip is probably built on plain-old ARM IP.

Now, call me a conspiracy theorist, but the thought that Apple bought a whole microprocessor company just to build them a regular ARM system-on-chip, is too boring to me. Sure, they can afford it, and it would be custom-made for the particular application, resulting in size and power-consumption optimisations, and they could get just the right coprocessors on board. But, think again: this is Apple. Wouldn’t it be very much in-character for them to have designed on-chip DRM?

Tablets and Palladium. Sybreon hoped it’d be the ’90s all over again, but maybe it’s the ’00s all over again…