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Apple Hires Key Chip Designer from Samsung
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Truth, samsung makes great TV's and refrigerators.
Cellphone department could use some innovation lol
HAHA Take on AMD execs!! Great idea!
They really do well at making CPU's NOT
Your either ARM or Intel or your nobody.
They really do well at making CPU's NOT
Your either ARM or Intel or your nobody.
He doesn't look Korean at all
Apple's assembling the Dream Team of SoC designers. Intel....you've been warned.
Paul Otellini is holding a meeting in the next few days.
Yes they did. The guys they acquired from PA-Semi have been working on it for years. The iPhone 5 is the first release. The off-the-shelf licensable ARM designs are the Cortex A8, Cortex A9 and Cortex A15. iPhone 4 and iPad 1 used Apple A4 which was based on Cortex A8. The iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and iPad 3 used the Apple A5 (or A5X) which are all based on Cortex A9. The latest generation of ARM chip is Cortex A15 which, according to Anandtech, was optimized for servers and is only suitable for mobile devices through some tweaks, but otherwise draws a bit much in the way of power for a mobile chip. Apple's A6 chip conforms to the ARMv7 instruction set, but delivers better performance in a mobile chip than the A15 with far less power consumption. The number of instructions per clock-cycle is amazing (besting chips clocked 50% higher).
You can read a comprehensive review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custom-core
Not really. The A4 internally was an ARM Cortex A8. The A5 was internally an ARM Cortex A9. The A6 is its own animal because Apple has an ARM license that allows them to design their own architectures rather than simply use off-the-shelf licensable designs.
You can read about it here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custom-core
The A6 is a special achievement from Apple. It shows that they can actually produce the absolute best ARM designs on the planet. Incidentally, last I checked, Apple still owned a significant (10%?) stake in ARM holdings -- a company Apple co-founded as a joint venture when they created the Newton.
I seem to recall Apple getting some big incentives to set-up some kind of operation in Texas...
So maybe not.
Like many of you, I'm hoping Apple has been increasing its chip design staff only for the iOS platform. I would hate to see apple go back to putting its own processors in its full fledged computers. Intel has too many benefits.
Pot. Kettle.
This kind of attitude is the reason why everyone ridicules Apple fanboys.
Have a feeling this is another move towards Apple ditching Intel and becoming almost 100% vertically integrated. Slightly worrying for those that remember the days of ADB & AIM. For all their superiority & simplicity Apple just couldnt keep up with its fingers in so many pies.
Don't trust him, Tim! He's a plant! He's gonna steal all your patents!
Did you learn nothing from the Eric Schmidt debacle?
Did you learn nothing from the Eric Schmidt debacle?
Yes he is seriously saying that. The SGIII is plastic piece of crap. It stutters, which is unforgivable at this point! The screen sucks, and so does the camera. If you put up an SGIII against an iPhone 4S, the 4S is a way better experience. And I don't care what it scores on GeekBench.
The Note 2? Puleeze. Get an iPad mini.
I think it's becoming clear why Apple will drop Intel from Macs. All future Apple products will run on some variation of A Chips.
Yea, I wanna see them put out a scratched up phone where every scratch is unique and magical and a half arsed working map solution to replace Google Maps. Their most broken Map App yet! Lets not forget having the phone force data over 3G/4G instead of an available Wifi connection since the phone knows you should use carrier data instead of free wifi. Revolutionary! For poops and gigs they bump the screen by an Innovative .5 inches!