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Did Apple and TSMC strike a deal to manufacture A6x processors?
In remarks made on Friday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO Morris Chang said that he anticipates that his company, in 2013, will be responsible for nearly all the chips built using the 28nm process. Consequently, some believe that Chang’s statements indicate that TSMC has at last struck a deal to manufacture chips for the […]
Continue reading...Samsung tightens the A6 pricing screws on Apple by 20 percent
Monday, November 12, 2012
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While Apple has settled its dispute with HTC, its legal battles with Samsung continue to rage on. To that end, we’ve heard a number of rumors regarding Apple’s efforts to look for a Samsung replacement, but remember that Apple isn’t the only one holding any cards in this game. Marketwatch reports that Samsung really upped […]
Continue reading...Apple lessens reliance on Samsung with A6 processor
Monday, October 15, 2012
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It’s no secret that Apple likes to control as much of the technology that goes into its products as possible. This need for control is further exacerbated when Apple finds itself uncomfortably reliant upon a competitors technology. Most recently, we saw Apple completely remove all Google products from the iOS homescreen when iOS 6 shipped […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5’s A6 dynamically changes its clock speed for increased battery performance
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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TUAW reports: One possible reason the iPhone 5 has such great battery life is the clever way the A6 changes its clock speed. While originally thought to be clocked at 1GHz, the chip has been clocked at 1.1GHz as well as 1.3GHz by Current Editorials. While 9to5Mac saw the chip’s speed drop as low as 550MHz, this seemed to do […]
Continue reading...ARM blocks on Apple’s A6 were laid out by hand – Report
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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iFixIt tears down Apple’s iPhone 5 A6 processor and has some interesting findings. Journey to the center of the A6. The most prominent features inside are the Dual ARM cores, and the three PowerVR graphics cores. When compared to the rigid, efficient layout of the GPU cores directly below it, the layout of the ARM […]
Continue reading...About that Apple designed A6 chip
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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An interesting article over at The Linley Group discusses Apple’s work in churning out the A6 and how they got there. It’s a great read and well worth checking out. Although Apple has been licensing cores from ARM for its previous processors, the company’s interest in CPU design dates back to its $278 million acquisition […]
Continue reading...Apple’s A6 uses in-house CPU design
Monday, September 17, 2012
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So it turns out Apple’s vaunted A6 is not based on the ARM Cortex A15 processor. Rather, it’s based on Apple’s own design. AnandTech writes: Prior to the announcement we speculated the iPhone 5’s SoC would simply be a higher clocked version of the 32nm A5r2 used in the iPad 2,4. After all, Apple seems […]
Continue reading...Purported images of iPhone 5’s A6 SOC emerge
Thursday, August 30, 2012
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First the A4, then the A5, then the A5x which debuted on the third-gen iPad, and now comes a few leaked photos purporting to be from the iPhone 5 which show Apple’s new A6 system on a chip. MacRumors reports: Sonny Dickson, who has been digging up photos of a number of components leaking out […]
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Monday, January 21, 2013
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