Thursday, March 10, 2011

All indications are that the iPhone 5 bet on the dual-core chip A5

We will not discover anything new to think the iPad 2 processor will be used for new Apple devices. I think it is a totally logical: the design and development of the A4 Chip Apple is being good value for money since it emerged in iPad, and later do on the iPhone 4, 4G iPod Touch, and later the Apple TV.

With the arrival of the latest Apple operating system for mobile devices, IOS 4.3, get some evidence to give strength to the hypothesis of dual core next Apple phone. We have to go to the latest development tools for IOS 4.3, where the developer community is identifying relationships between the processor released in the iPad 2 and the new iPhone.

The processor of the tablet, Chip A5, is known internally as 'S5L8940', and the system kernel appears that a device called N94AP (presumably iPhone 5), also uses the same chip. As a curiosity, the A4 is known as Chip 'S5L8930'. We must be clear that this evidence does not support the use of Chip A5, but in the past sift through the IOS code has been used to meet specifications or the arrival of new hardware, as happened with the Verizon version of the iPhone 4.

Bet on a dual-core processor is somewhat expected given that Android competition is already doing, in fact already on the phone market with more advantageous option, the Nvidia Tegra 2. Mobile World Congress in more than a trend became a standard in the high range of leading manufacturers.

Follow other major proposals such as dual-core Snapdragon, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments's OMAP4, or 4210 of Samsung Exynos, formerly known as Exynos. It is a fact that this is such processors as well as the first benchmark test, which show significant performance improvements while not losing autonomy, so it is concerned that the operating system and developers take advantage of it .

To not let us breathe, Nvidia has already put on the table its Project Kal-El, with four cores, and actual devices before end of the year. In the case of iPad 2, comparisons are being more positive about the first tablet, so that we can expect better results for iPhone 5 if the screen resolution is lower.

Rumors are growing about the future (or present) Apple relationship with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co) for the manufacture of chips of the first, to the detriment of the Korean Samsung. TSMC could be responsible for manufacturing the dual-core chips A5 discussed in this press release, released in the new iPad.

The successful production of A4 using iPhone 4, 4G iPod Touch and the first iPad, currently accounts for Samsung. The change could be determined by two factors: Samsung is competing directly with their products, TSMC has the 40nm production plant's largest market, which is the technology that the chip is built A5, and in the future would have no problem stop it with 28nm.

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