Apple Turns To UK For iPhone Processors

Forgive me as a true Brit, a little gloating in the iPhone processor source stakes:

• Applications Processor: Samsung – ARM11
• Baseband Processor: Infineon – ARM926
• WiFi Processor: Marvell – ARM946
• Bluetooth Processor: CSR – XAP
• Broadcom touchscreen controller – Broadcom Inhouse (team located in Cambridge)

(That's Cambridge, UK 5 - California, USA 0.) Also just to rub salt in the Californian wounds, I believe the Head of Design at Apple is actually a Geordie.

Even more interesting is the last time that Apple launched a product predominately based upon Acorn technology – it turned out to be one of the biggest flops in computer industry history and paved the way for the return of Jobs.

Will it be flop #2 or a testament to timing and marketing brilliance of Jobs? Tune in this time, next year for the answer…