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"The Apple iPhone runs on an ARM architecture CPU" I read on Apple news sites. I had never heard of this architecture and went to wikipedia.org/ARM_architecture to find some very interesting facts:

• ARM stands for "Advanced RISC Machine" which is the name of the company developing the architecture
  OS X was running on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture before the switch to Intels CISC (Complex …)

• The first usable architecture, the ARMv2, was developed in 1985
  pretty old stuff *cough*

• ARMv3 powered Apples Newton!
  All the people speculating about a redesign of the Apple Newton were very right too

• ARMv4T runs the iPod and the Nintendo DS
  Apples software developers already knew the platform

• ARMv5TE runs various Mobile Phones, Palms, SmartPhones and Mobile Gaming Consoles

• ARMv6 runs the Zune and - what an irony - the iPhone!
  I bet M$' Bill G. wants to lynch his product developers *biggrin*

I am looking forward to where this (according to Apple) third revolutionary product leads the Industry. And I am certainly longing to see the iPhone V2 or later providing laptop computing possibilities in your pocket!