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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. No Way by LordBmore · · Score: 5, Funny

    This can't be right... TFA doesn't make a single reference to magic.

  2. 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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  3. Upshot: display tech dominates battery life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They show that power usage is:
    0.5 Watts at idle with the display disconnected
    1.75 Watts at idle with display at min brightness
    4.25 Watts at idle with display at max brightness

    They estimate that the A4 CPU uses 0.5 to 0.8 Watts when browsing the web over WiFi.

    Conclusion, FTA:

    Until display technologies make big moves downward in power consumption the consumer experience of battery life may be driven as much or more by the LED drivers, opto-mechanical design of the back-lighting, display settings and wireless connectivity employed versus the CPU itself.

  4. Re:Interesting by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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