Apple just took a big step toward upping its chip-making game, and took a big swipe at Samsung in the process. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cupertino's hired away Jim Mergard, a well respected and vastly experienced engineer, from the Korean company. Read More >>
Featured comment by Taf:
"Very true, the fact that apple are trying to build a CPU from the ground up shows allot more desire to stand out from the crowd where most of the othe..." More »
This is interesting. MacRumors reports that an iOS developer found a new, unknown iPad device showing up in his app analytics. Though that usually means the next version of the iPad, the unknown iPad actually had the same footprint as the current iPad 3—but with the faster processor of the iPhone 5. Hmm... Read More >>
Featured comment by WhatYouTalkinBoutWillis:
"phrases likely to be said when the product is released.
Introducing the new new ipad
in 2010 we released the ipad, in 2011 we released the ipad 2 an..." More »
The iPhone 5's processor might be faster than we thought. According to TLDToday, the A6 is clocking in at 1.3GHz after an update to the Geekbench benchmarking app, which is supposed to do a better job of detecting what's actually going on with the A6. Read More >>
Featured comment by Taf:
"If its officially a 1ghz and then moves up to 1.3ghz, surely that's classed as over clocking, the ability to overclock can also be by design.. . Still..." More »
It's not a surprise. The A5 chip—the brain of the iPhone 4S—is also made by Samsung. But in the current polarised climate of the Apple-Samsung Wars, it's worth remembering that the show goes on and the new iPhone 5's brain is made by Samsung too. Read More >>
During the iPhone 5 announcement, Apple mentioned the new phone would have its own new chip, the A6. Specific specs were sparse then, but AnandTech did some sleuthing and found the chip packs 1GB of RAM, and 33% more peak memory bandwidth than the iPhone 4S. Read More >>
Featured comment by Rikka:
"I find it difficult to take offense from random comments such as that, it's only ever my close friends, if they meant it in a scathing way, that would..." More »
Apple announced it's got a whole new chip for the iPhone 5. It's called the A6, which is a semi-surprising upgrade to this year's iPad's A5X. Read More >>
The Apple leaks continue, this time a super sketchy photo of an iPhone 5 logic board, apparently packing a brand new A6 processor. It could make sense, given the iPhone 5 doesn't need the graphics power of the A5X currently in the retina iPad, so is this the new chip to make iOS 6 absolutely blazing? Read More >>
BGR is claiming that one of its sources has access to an iPad 3 prototype which, at this stage of development, it may be true. According to them, these debug screenshots confirm some of the speculation about the next Apple tablet: Read More >>
Featured comment by scaramoosh:
"I don't think IOS is better for the average consumer, all I ever hear from my Mum is "why can't I do this" and I have to tell her you need to go throu..." More »
Apple adverts usually tout what the iPad and iPhone can do rather than the innards running them. That doesn't mean Apple isn't actively working on making your next iOS device super-duper, quad-core fast. Read More >>
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