Apple A4 Processor Teardown 79
Plocmstart writes "Here's what EETimes.com is claiming to be the first teardown of the A4 processor. 'Apple's iPad chip is a single-core ARM A8 made by Samsung. Through various benchmarking testing, UBM TechInsights was able to find out the details of the A4 processor.'"
Useful / single page URL (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701036&printable=true&printable=true [eetimes.com]
Next time guys, save us the effort and use the link that doesn't require us to click next 4 times to read an article that fits on half a page.
Oh ... timothy, nevermind.
Re:also, multicore? (Score:3, Informative)
No but it does have neon. (Score:4, Informative)
It does have Neon [arm.com] but no powerpc. Strange that this information did not came from someone with a compiler. Does apple withhold information what code can be generated? Are devs so spooked by the apps license?
Re:No but it does have neon. (Score:3, Informative)
I wish it were that easy! In the real world, developers go through all this and have to worry about their app being rejected.
Re:No Way (Score:3, Informative)
Does not assemble. Try this:
get_magic:
ADR r0, magic
BX lr
magic: .ascii "Magical\0"