By Javier Espinoza
Apple’s European suppliers are hoping to score big wins following the launch of the highly-anticipated iPad tablet, which by some accounts is expected to sell around six million units in 2010.
Goldman Sachs told clients in a note on Thursday it expected the launch of Apple Inc’s new gadget to be “positive” news for Cambridge-based ARM Holdings, which manufactures chips for computers, and “potentially positive” for Munich-based Infineon Technologies AG. It is still unclear whether Infineon’s chips have been included in the iPad.
“The Apple-designed processor uses an ARM-based Cortex architecture. This was expected but, in our opinion, highlights ARM’s dominance in what we might call the ‘converged device’ space,” analysts at Goldman Sachs said…
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