Apple A4 Processor Teardown

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Posted by timothy on Thursday May 13, 2010 @08:51AM 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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Re:ARTICLE IS GOATSE REDIRECT by Darkness404 · 2010-05-13 09:10 · Score: 2, Insightful

This is /. we do not read TFA, therefore it doesn't matter if it is Goatse or not, no one is going to see it.

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also, multicore? by poetmatt · 2010-05-13 09:12 · Score: 2, Insightful

also, I thought the world claimed it was multi-core? This teardown summary says it's single core.

A4 is a System-on-a-Chip, or SOC, that integrates the main processor [ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore i.e. Multi-Processing Core, identical to ones used in nVidia Tegra and Qualcomm Snapdragon]
meanwhile, from the summary:

number of ARM cores: 1
hmm.
1. Re:also, multicore? by gumbi+west · 2010-05-13 11:49 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Find a review that says the UI slow.
2. Re:also, multicore? by negRo_slim · 2010-05-13 12:14 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  What does the UI have to do with processor performance?
  
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3. Re:also, multicore? by trouser · 2010-05-13 17:16 · 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.
  
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4. Re:also, multicore? by BasilBrush · 2010-05-13 21:43 · Score: 4, 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.
5. Re:also, multicore? by soppsa · 2010-05-14 02:55 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  It's all that matters in the end. This device isn't for you to play Crysis on or compile your gentoos.
  
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6. Re:also, multicore? by tehcyder · 2010-05-14 03:13 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Hi Steve!
  
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Re:No Way by edittard · 2010-05-13 09:16 · Score: 4, Insightful

Are you saying this isn't so much a teardown as a lookat, a thinkabout or a getdrunkandspeculatewildly?

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Re:Interesting by PopeRatzo · 2010-05-13 09:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

Anyone know what Google is planning on stuffing in their new tablet ?
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L2 Cache! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-13 09:52 · Score: 1, Insightful

Did you see the size of the L2 cache? It ought to be enough for everybody!
Next steps by Yvan256 · 2010-05-13 11:06 · Score: 2, Insightful

A4 for iPad
A4 for next iPhone
A4 for next iPod touch
A4 for next AppleTV, possibly let it play games too.
Re:Interesting by michaelhood · 2010-05-13 17:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

Anyone know what Google is planning on stuffing in their new tablet ?
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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.