The Register’s Anna Leach reports that a Dutch computer science student’s homework has stirred the old rumour that Apple may ditch the Intel platform and power its Macbooks with ARM processors.
Tristan Schaap’s bachelor thesis (http://bit.ly/A5p6Nn) at the Delft University of Technology described work he did at Apple as an intern: getting the core of Mac OS X to run on an MV88F6281 processor – an ARM926EJ-S-compatible component, made by Marvell [PDF], rather than silicon from Intel.
Written in 2010 after a three-month spell slaving away in the Platform Technologies Group in Cupertino, Schaap’s 16-page dissertation was embargoed for a year and published in August 2011, Leach notes.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/07/mac_osx_on_arm/
