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No A6 Chip for iPad Until June 2012 at the Earliest?
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Dang, PJMAN beat me to it...
'I'm just gonna wait for the iPad 4. No need to waste my time with these inferior products out right now!'
Dang, PJMAN beat me to it...
'I'm just gonna wait for the iPad 4. No need to waste my time with these inferior products out right now!'
That'd part of the problem for people like myself "Upgraders"
There does not seem much reason to upgrade.
I'm hoping to see a much more powerful iPad3 and software that runs horrid, or not at all on an iPad1 to give me a real reason to want to upgrade.
Having the game the same as before but a little more detail in the textures does not give me the reason I'm looking for.
I think Apple would like to move the iPad annual release date to the fall timeframe, in front of the holidays and possibly before back-to-school time. But because they can't wait a year and a half between releases, it makes sense that they would release an intermediate iPad model in say January-February (maybe A5 with retina display), then release the A6+retina (+maybe LTE or whatever) around August, and then settle into that as the new annual iPad date.
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The A5 isn't even in anything but the iPad yet. Why are there rumors of the A6?
because everyone is on a yearly release cycle
I can't wait for when I plug in my iPhone 7 into my TV, download Call of Duty on the app store and play it online with my wireless controller.
Don't get it.. why assume that A6 won't be ready earlier cause TSMC can't deliver sooner. Correct me if I am wrong but A5 chips has at least 2 manufacturers right? Samsung and other people I can't remember. TSMC add is to depend less or get rid of Samsung entirely..
No, A5 is single source. It is counterproductive to go to multiple fab houses for one design.
Not to mention that TSMC is basically the only fabrication company even remotely prepared to produce 28nm silicon.
A little patience goes a long way. There will be plenty of action surrounding the debugging of Lion to keep the forum buzzing. And I'm not being critical of it in the least.
Anyone who knows even a little about software engineering, will fully appreciate just how good it is now. They'll also understand why some bugs only appear after the software is released to the general public.
Anyone who knows even a little about software engineering, will fully appreciate just how good it is now. They'll also understand why some bugs only appear after the software is released to the general public.
Is June included in the time from April 1- June 30?
I hope they give the iPad enough RAM to take advantage of the faster processor. Too much would be just enough.
2nd Quarter reveal/announcement, but probably 3rd Quarter for sales. July sales? Well, it's a rumor, so wait and see. If the A6 is such a leap and such a strong computing chip, it's worth the wait to get it right, especially when combined with a higher-res screen.
Too many analysts are making this error, Intel's tri-gate is a 3D TRANSISTOR technology. TSMC is NOT implementing anything like a tri-gate transistor at 28nm. They WILL be using 3D ROUTING technology (TSV - through silicon vias) - a VERY different technology than trigate transistors. One which is not particularly leading edge BTW.
Apple is moving away from a year cycle because their devices sells anyway.
iPad 2 is still selling well and so is iPhone 4.
Apple is not in rush at all.
I would rather apple to take their time and secure enough of screens for iPad 3. A6 chip should and must be in iPad 3. I don't want half baked bread. I do not want half finished product. Look at what happens with other tablets.
iPad 2 is still selling well and so is iPhone 4.
Apple is not in rush at all.
I would rather apple to take their time and secure enough of screens for iPad 3. A6 chip should and must be in iPad 3. I don't want half baked bread. I do not want half finished product. Look at what happens with other tablets.
Personally, if I had the choice between quad-core CPU and 4 graphics cores I would go with the graphics. The iPad's CPU is plenty fast enough for most if not all things developers throw at it. Graphics capabilities greatly improving would make the iPad even more gamer-friendly than it is now. With more graphics cores and iOS being coded to support these cores, developers will be able to do much more graphically and the extra graphics cores would allow smoother framerates if Apple does use a retina display.
The iPad2 doesn't feel underpowered. My only concern would be if they do double resolution to 2048x1536, will the A5 chip slow to a crawl pushing to that many pixels?
Apple hasn't had issues with doing a no fanfare under the hood only performance bump on products int he past without changing the name of the product. For all we know we could get an iPad3 in early 2012, and then when the A6 chips become available see an updated iPad3 with the only change being the faster processor.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/4605/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-4g-lte-review
iPad 2: Apple A5 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Motorola Xoom WiFi: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Are you seeing a commonality yet? They are all Dual ARM Cortex A9's @ 1GHz.
The only differences are the built in GPU's. But the CPU's are all identical.
Apple hasn't had issues with doing a no fanfare under the hood only performance bump on products int he past without changing the name of the product. For all we know we could get an iPad3 in early 2012, and then when the A6 chips become available see an updated iPad3 with the only change being the faster processor.
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The A5 isn't even in anything but the iPad yet. Why are there rumors of the A6?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4605/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-4g-lte-review
iPad 2: Apple A5 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Motorola Xoom WiFi: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual ARM Cortex A9 @ 1GHz)
Are you seeing a commonality yet? They are all Dual ARM Cortex A9's @ 1GHz.
The only differences are the built in GPU's. But the CPU's are all identical.
From an internal standpoint, the A5 is already old news within the company. I'm sure Apples engineers are deep into the A6 project which will have quite a positive opportunity for the iOS team to build their software accordingly. There's so much more current & future potential in the A6 architecture, that will be the real news item for quite some time.
Also, some reports have the first stages of the planned iOS & OS X convergence being executed concurrently. It's this project that will finally reveal what the true vision Apple has in mind for their customers future.
Given the fact that only so much is required from a mobile OS for phones & pads, it's hard to imagine anything impressive when this single OS, and mobile chips are used in what used to be known as a laptop or desktop. Taking into consideration the latest rumor of all new devices from Apple sooner rather than later, if true, there will be big changes from the gadget company.
Also, some reports have the first stages of the planned iOS & OS X convergence being executed concurrently. It's this project that will finally reveal what the true vision Apple has in mind for their customers future.
Given the fact that only so much is required from a mobile OS for phones & pads, it's hard to imagine anything impressive when this single OS, and mobile chips are used in what used to be known as a laptop or desktop. Taking into consideration the latest rumor of all new devices from Apple sooner rather than later, if true, there will be big changes from the gadget company.
That's what I've been reading for a while now, too. What's sad is that we won't be getting the annual March iPad.
On a positive note, by late Q2 2012, they'll hopefully be getting decent yields of the improved displays. I'd rather Apple take a few extra months and get it right than spend several months hearing about "Retinagate" or "A6gate" which turn out to be nothing. Who knows, maybe by that time 4G can be put in.
