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One core, dual core, quad core? Whats A6?
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im betting its a higher clocked dual core. if it was quad core they would have used it in marketing.
Nope, they said that's going in the new iPod Touch. I'm really hoping the A6 is A15 based.
The A5 placed into the iPhone 4s was duo core too wasn't it? ( in terms of GPU) If it was, then perhaps Apple did indeed just increase clock speed for both CPU and GPU processing.
Anandtech thinks it's a dual core A15. Won't know for sure though till the iFixit disassembly.
No, because that would take more power. Apple said the A6 uses less.
No, because that would take more power. Apple said the A6 uses less.
Apple really is bizzare in the fact that they never release RAM, Processor speed, or Processor type.
They just tell you it's twice as fast. Possibly showing a bar-chart with no verifiable data...
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True..perhaps apple wanted to create a new chip that was faster but focused primarily on the power efficiency, to combat the fiasco of the iPhone 4s, which apple suited with an A5 and caused a bunch if battery woes. Perhaps the A6 is just a duo core CPU just each core clocked higher but design with power efficiency in mind
Otherwise I support the theory that apple would have built a massive marketing around the A6 ( their very own quad core power efficiency CPU)
Jay7872 said:
Which is exactly what the A-15 core is... a much faster, more efficient A-9 core.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15_MPCore
Of quad core, they would have bragged.
If CortexA15, they wouldn't have said. They never mentioned what kind of cpu base was in A4 or A5. They don't go int those kind of details.
A5 super clocked for 1.7-2x performance even at 32nm would chew through battery.
Has to be dual-core CortexA15 or proprietary new significant evolution of the A9 by Apple.
They put that in the iPod Touch 5th and kept calling it the A5. That wouldn't make sense.
It wouldn't get 2x the performance unless they clocked it to 1.6-1.8GHz which is unlikely as that would chew through battery.
probably a modified Samsung Exynos SoC (according to last rumor from digitimes, and they're normally accurate with their reporting)
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120705PD206.html
that would make it a cortex-a9 based SoC.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120705PD206.html
that would make it a cortex-a9 based SoC.
I don't understand why this bothers people as much as it does... If the phone performs well, who cares if its run by a dual core, quad core, 16 core or a hamster running on a wheel. It's just numbers. Real life performance is the real measure to care about.
I'm guessing it's something like the Snapdragon S4 - A15 based but not totally - and it would work well with LTE