PA Semi Acquisition Not Responsable For iPad's A4 Chip?

When Apple announced that the iPad was running their own custom A4 processor, everyone assumed it was the work of the talent Apple assimilated when they acquired PA Semi, a processor designer. Now that is believed not to be true. Instead, the chip was actually designed by the already existing chip designing team that has existed within Apple for years in some form or another and made chips for other devices.

The information comes from a "very trusted" source, according to VentureBeat:

PA Semi didn’t do the A4. It was the existing VLSI team. Apple has made custom chips for years like the Northbridges for G4 and G5.

Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has openly admitted in the past that the acquisition of PA Semi was to help them design chips for future iPods and iPhones, and the similarity of the iPad to those devices led to the belief that PA Semi's skills would also be applied to the iPad's A4.

[via VentureBeat]