Google Buys Agnilux, Founded by Former Apple Employees  By Clint
Boulton  |  Posted 2010-04-21  Google has quietly purchased a
stealth company founded by former Apple employees called
Agnilux, the search engine confirmed for eWEEK April 20.
Agnilux allegedly makes a server chip, but no one has been able
to confirm this and the Website is bare aside from some @symbols
and shadow figures of office workers.  The acquisition was first
detected by PEHub, which said the company held talks with
companies like Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Texas Instruments
about a strategic investment before landing with Google.
Agnilux was scarcely a blip on the radar, but The New York Times
provided a rough sketch of the startup in February as part of a
profile on Apple's A4 chip, the processing engine behind the
ballyhooed iPad.  It seems the A4, designed to process large
volumes of data while consuming little power, was developed by
engineers who joined Apple in the computer maker's $278 million
purchase of PA Semi in 2008.  So