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Apple A4 Processor Teardown

Posted by timothy on from the coring-the-thing dept.

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.'"

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  1. Useful / single page URL by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701036&printable=true&printable=true

    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.

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  2. Re:also, multicore? by atrus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Multicore was wild speculation. It was pretty much obvious that it was a Cortex-A8 once the first units hit the market.

  3. No but it does have neon. by leuk_he · · Score: 4, Informative

    It does have Neon 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?

    1. Re:No but it does have neon. by FuckingNickName · · Score: 2, 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.

  4. Re:No Way by marcansoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does not assemble. Try this:

    get_magic:
                    ADR r0, magic
                    BX lr

    magic: .ascii "Magical\0"