While given the name Scorpius on the front, it was long better known under another name by Apple diehards: Aquarius. But some very smart technical people contributed to it, and from what I heard at the time the design was solid.” “Now, obviously this project never saw the light of day. “Work started in the mid ’80s, and continued until the end of the decade,” the leaker of this confidential document noted. Uploaded by an anonymous user with apparent ties to Apple, the “ Scorpius Architectural Specification,” published in 1989, explained the general concepts of multi-core CPU architectures more than a decade before those technologies came into wide use by PC users.
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And last year, a document landed on the Internet Archive that laid out just how ambitious that was. In many ways, the advantages of vertical integration, and the perceived weaknesses of supplied CPUs from vendors, have long attracted Apple, a company that has long been a vertical integrator at its heart.īut many people may not have been aware how early that interest in producing its own CPUs emerged-and that it started internally. (Internet Archive) Apple’s first in-house CPU project surfaced nearly 35 years ago It took Apple a couple of decades to make good on this general concept.
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