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.'"
Re:ARTICLE IS GOATSE REDIRECT (Score:2, Insightful)
also, multicore? (Score:3, Insightful)
also, I thought the world claimed it was multi-core? [tipb.com] This teardown summary says it's single core.
meanwhile, from the summary:
hmm.
Re:No Way (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
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L2 Cache! (Score:1, Insightful)
Did you see the size of the L2 cache? It ought to be enough for everybody!
Next steps (Score:3, Insightful)
A4 for iPad
A4 for next iPhone
A4 for next iPod touch
A4 for next AppleTV, possibly let it play games too.
Re:also, multicore? (Score:3, Insightful)
Find a review that says the UI slow.
Re:also, multicore? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Interesting (Score:4, Insightful)
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Slashdot broke my mod points somehow, but this deserves to be modded to plus infinity. However, as anyone who saw the iPhone OS 4.0 presentation knows, there will be plenty of ads on the iPad too soon enough.
Re:also, multicore? (Score:2, Insightful)
Apple's just proving the point that consumers don't care how "fast" a chip is if the experience is that the device has an Apple Logo.
Re:also, multicore? (Score:5, Insightful)
Brand loyalty first has to be earned. Apple didn't get lucky, they created a lot of great products and earned their brand loyalty.
Re:also, multicore? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:also, multicore? (Score:3, Insightful)