Are you kidding? Google samsung made a6
Do u think apple made them too? Where? Back of the apple store?
They are made in the samsung plant in texas
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Overview of Apple's A6 Chip Development and Future Plans
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Are you kidding? Google samsung made a6
Do u think apple made them too? Where? Back of the apple store?
They are made in the samsung plant in texas
No plans for an Intel SOC?
You're joking, right?
Who needs Intel to dictate timelines when you can design and let other fabs stamp out your needs?
The embedded world cuts the ties to the traditional CPU powers that be and we benefit from it.
That wouldnt benifit anyone. Its fast for a phone but not that powerful. Plus osx wouldnt run on it.
Current macbook air has geekbench scores over 6000 for base model in comparison.
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That's why 2 year contracts are bad (and for other reasons). I have a 4S and won't be able to get a discounted price until next August, at which point it will make sense to wait for the 5S. Personally, I think Siri was a dud so I hope Apple has something better up their sleeves for the 5S. An A6X/A7, a 12MP camera and minor advantages with iOS 7 won't be enough. It's possible Apple could introduce more colors like they're doing with the 5th gen iPod Touch, but even that won't be enough (unless you're Japanese).
I think I'm secretly hoping that there won't be a 5S next year, but a redesigned 6 which may be the only thing Apple could do to prevent a lackluster response to the "in-between iPhone", which is what it will become. Apple should be a little unpredictable, perhaps like introducing a tweaked iPad 3 or even next-gen iPad next month. Maybe Apple thinks you'll upgrade no matter what they release because you're so entrenched into the apps/itunes ecosystem, like I am. Like another poster said, Apple appears to be in a comfort zone which to some degree makes some sense with many iOS users in their own comfort zone, myself included.
Apple manufactures nothing. They are simply a design house. They would rather outsource their building/fabbing/etc. to the lowest bidder. They can also levelage multiple suppliers when necessary to build up a bigger cache of materials (i.e. multiple LCD, memory, etc.) so that they aren't so dependent upon one source. Further, the cost of a FAB is multiple billions. Yes I know Apple has like a gazillion dollars in the bank, but they would rather spend their money on their cloud infastructure than bothering to spend billions building a FAB and then retrofitting that FAB everytime a new smaller process is created (i.e. from 45nm to 32nm). Google what Intel's Fabs cost them.... it will blow your mind.
ARMv8 = x86 replacement
Hear that, Intel?
Just a matter of time before Apple dumps Intel chips and starts using its own 64-bit quad-core ARM designs. In Macs.
Oh, and yes, Intel iX Core processors will in all likelihood have more processing power than 64-bit ARMv8 processors. But how many MacBook Air users need desktop-class number-crunching power? Not very many I'd guess.
[Update: Long before Apple officially switched Macs from PowerPC to Intel, they kept one or two engineers working on an Intel build of OS X. Just to be ready for the transition to Intel. And now, it's very likely they've kept a RISC build of the latest version of OS X running. Just to be ready for the (inevitable) transition back to RISC.]
Hear that, Intel?
Just a matter of time before Apple dumps Intel chips and starts using its own 64-bit quad-core ARM designs. In Macs.
Oh, and yes, Intel iX Core processors will in all likelihood have more processing power than 64-bit ARMv8 processors. But how many MacBook Air users need desktop-class number-crunching power? Not very many I'd guess.
[Update: Long before Apple officially switched Macs from PowerPC to Intel, they kept one or two engineers working on an Intel build of OS X. Just to be ready for the transition to Intel. And now, it's very likely they've kept a RISC build of the latest version of OS X running. Just to be ready for the (inevitable) transition back to RISC.]
"According to one source, Steve Jobs initially set an "insanely great" bar for the performance of the new CPU..."
I hope other leaders are still pushing that hard at Apple.
I hope other leaders are still pushing that hard at Apple.
Thanks Spock. Apple has adopted the current naming convention. There's not reason to keep arguing over it.
You conveniently left the 3G and the 3GS out of your series because they don't follow the same naming protocol
I'm not arguing over it; it is what it is. Just pointing out faulty logic passed off as something that is supposed to make sense.
Oh, you're welcome.
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You conveniently left the 3G and the 3GS out of your series because they don't follow the same naming protocol
Yep, I said the same thing and was called "Spock" which was supposed to be an insult I guess. Kind of like making a point with a kid and the response is, "Well, you're a weeny head".
You conveniently left the 3G and the 3GS out of your series because they don't follow the same naming protocol
I did. And I'm only speculating that the next iPhone will be the 5S. Get enough generations down, and it really won't matter which generation it is, because people will stop counting. In fact, I would argue most people have.
Jack Dongarra (the guy who has been publishing the Top 500 Supercomputer list twice a year for the last 25 years) published a paper about running the Linpack benchmark on an iPad 2. Two results: 1. The iPad 2 would have been at the top of the 1984 supercomputer list, beating a Cray-2. That means beating the most expensive hardware that you could buy in 1984. 2. The iPad 2 can deliver up to 4 GFlop / Watt, which beats anything else today.
I think Intel's Haswell and subsequent CPU will put an end to this type of talk. I'm in no hurry to move away from Intel processors for desktop/notebook and in turn ARM for mobile devices.
dude, do you know what a monopoly is? apple doesnt hold the majority of the marketshare cuz there are a billion other phones to choose from...NOT A MONOPOLY, durr
Intel hears this and says " Your Macs are a drop in the bucket. We don't care "
So you want The Mac to lose marketshare its gained? One of the big things for alotta the Mac only guys I know with the Intel switch, was that they could run windows on their Macs via bootcamp or parralles or however you want to do it, it also brought lots of guys in who didn't consider a Mac before because they couldn't really run windows well. It was great for the Mac guys because the enterprise world is a windows world, gaming is a windows world, most software on the planet is for windows. So the ability to switch over to Windows when you needed it gave the mac a HUGE boost. Instead of having to buy 2 seperate computers, and spent a lot more money, you just bought your Mac and a Copy of Windows and used bootcamp, lots of people really like that.
Losing the ability to run Windows would be a HUGE blow for the Mac.
So, your willing to pay the same money for less performance?
Its very, not likely.
I'm assuming we'll see the iPad "4" with an A6 maybe an X variant so it'll be 2X the CPU speed of the A5 (with some GPU bump over the standard A6), decent reduction in heat power, 20-25% better battery life
Er, I guess since I'm speculating on the CPU, might as well throw in: single layer IGZO display (retina res, also lowers battery consumption), ~1.5mm thinner, 8MP RFC, 720P FFC, new dock connector, lower power LTE, dual channel N-spec WiFi.
OK, back on topic
Er, I guess since I'm speculating on the CPU, might as well throw in: single layer IGZO display (retina res, also lowers battery consumption), ~1.5mm thinner, 8MP RFC, 720P FFC, new dock connector, lower power LTE, dual channel N-spec WiFi.
OK, back on topic
Yes, existing apps will run just fine, but if Apple's ARM micro-architecture can get better performance from a different ordering of the machine instructions produced by the compiler, recompilation will be necessary to get maximum performance. x86 improvements over the years have required similar improvements in the compilers to optimize performance.
So, the statement is hardly nonsense, it simply goes beyond your understanding of CPU architecture.
Samsung S3 scores 1781
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1026099
and 2399
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1039203
the first is on jelly beans (so not official)
the second is severely overclocked (1.8GHz)
in smart phone market, they are getting there ...
in terms of revenue (dollar) they are already.
if you want to close your eyes, please go ahead.
Smartphone market ? Android is gaining ground much faster. It very well may hit 60 percent this year.
Revenue = Not a monopoly, that makes no sense.
Open your eyes. The last time there was a bad monopoly in the tech world was microsoft, Apple has nothing close to that.
You mixed two Predator quotes together. It's:
Get to the choppa... GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
and
Get down NAO!
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Nah, Samsung's covered that for them quite nicely
Does HTC manufacture their own chips? Sound like a smart business decision on Apples part.