Acquired

Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

Jan 24, 2017

01:13:55

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Apple's Going to Win That Race, You Know?

01:38

The Apple a Series Chip Has an Advantage That Other Manufacturers Don't Have.

01:44

The Next Wave of Experiences

01:39

Introduction

2min

The New Tis Approach to Getting Insights on a Company or Industry

2min

Investing in Your Business With Tegus

2min

Dot FM Podcast - Should We Dig Into It With the History and Facts?

3min

The Difference Between Arm and X 86?

5min

Steve Jobs' Mac OS X - The Mac Operating System in Secret

1min

Apple

4min

Is Apple Really Buying P A?

2min

Ipad - The Original Ipad Launched in January

2min

10.

The Story of P Emi

3min

11.

Sam Sung's Embedded Finger Print Authentication System

2min

12.

Touch Idea Censer

2min

13.

Is Apple Buying a Technology Company?

3min

14.

Apple's Acquisition of a Semi Conductor and an Authentication Company?

2min

15.

The Apple a Series Chip Has an Advantage That Other Manufacturers Don't Have.

2min

16.

Is Apple Really Strict on Device Security?

2min

17.

What Would Have Happened Without Apple?

3min

18.

Is Apple Unlikely to Get Up an Atom?

4min

19.

The Future of Machine Learning and Cloud Computing

4min

20.

The Next Wave of Experiences

2min

21.

Apple's Going to Win That Race, You Know?

2min

22.

What's Differential Pricing?

3min

23.

Is It Better Than Instigram and Nest Nest?

3min

24.

Alaska Airlines, Virgin America, and Walmar

2min

25.

Facebook

3min

26.

The Situation - A Great Article

2min

27.

Managing Humans by Sudo Patel

3min

28.

Tegus and Co.

3min

Topics covered include:

P.A. Semi’s original moniker ("Palo Alto Semiconductor”) and its celebrity founder (in the semiconductor world) Dan Dobberpuhl
History of the back and forth tradeoffs between Intel’s powerful x86 chips and low power alternatives like ARM processors
Dobberpuhl’s technology breakthroughs throughout his career that enabled true low-power + high-performance chips
The initial target markets for P.A. Semi’s chips (surprise: NOT mobile phones)
P.A. Semi’s first foray into a potential deal with Apple, dashed by Cupertino’s surprise switch to Intel processors in 2005
The rise of mobile finally creating the huge market need for low-power / high-performance, Apple’s acquisition of P.A., and launch of the first Apple-designed chip, the “A4”, with the original iPad in 2010
Geekbench: the single-core performance of Apple’s latest generation of smartphone processors (A10 Fusion) has basically caught up with Intel’s laptop CPUs
AuthenTec’s beginnings in the late 90’s as a spinoff from the defense contractor Harris Corporation (named by Wired Magazine as the #2 threat to internet privacy in the US), based in Melbourne, Florida
Early versions of the technology that became TouchID, the sensors for which were many times larger than today’s iPhones themselves!
AuthenTec “not very Apple-like” website on Archive.org (and screenshot)
AuthenTec’s deal that almost was to put their technology and sensors into Samsung’s flagship phones
Apple’s acquisition of AuthenTec for $356 million in July 2012, and the rapid introduction of TouchID in the iPhone 5S one year later in September 2013