Apple's A6 Details and Timeline Emerge

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, 2011 @07:11PM from the from-deep-in-the-bowels-of-cupertino dept.

MojoKid writes "For a CPU that hasn't seen the light of day, there's a great deal of debate surrounding Apple's A6 and the suggestion that it may not appear until later in 2012. The A6 is a complex bit of hardware. Rumors indicate that the chip is a quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU built on 28nm at TSMC and utilizing 3D fabrication technology. While the Cortex-A9 is a proven design, Apple's A6 will be one of the first 28nm chips on the market. The chip will serve as a test case for TSMC's introduction of both 28nm gate-last technology and 3D chip stacking. This is actually TSMC's first effort with an Apple device. The A4 and A5 have both historically been manufactured by Samsung."

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Re:Quad Core In a Tablet/Phone? by Dunbal · 2011-08-27 23:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You do know that iPhone apps can do quite a lot in the background...[]... right?

Yeah, like sending all your data to Apple without your consent, for example.

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