Word on the street, the Wall Street Journal to be exact, is that the processor chip for the rumored tablet is being designed by Apple's recently acquired, internal chip team PA Semi. Apple swooped up PA Semi in April of '08 for a measly $278 million.
No one really said what Apple was planning to do with PA Semi, but there are reports that their super hero design team has been investing half of their work force to developing processors for iPhones and iPod touches, and the other half to designing processors for tablet devices.
MacRumors has been setting stories afloat that Apple plans on having a tablet read for the holiday season, even though it may seem a little late to finish a chip for a product launching in fall. Unless, like Japan's ongoing construction of giant robo-mech suits in secret underground bunkers for an upcoming full-out global strike, Apple has been developing the processor in secret since spring of last year. Either way, we are excitedly waiting the official unveiling of the Apples tablet... or our new Gundam-based world leaders.
Via VentureBeat
