Venture Beat claims a “very trusted” source has informed them that Apple’s PA Semi team might not have been behind the new iPad ’s Apple A4 chipset: PA Semi didn’t do the A4. It was the existing VLSI team. Read more ...

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Apple iPad A4 Chip Designed by PA Semi Team… or Not?

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Venture Beat claims a “very trusted” source has informed them that Apple’s PA Semi team might not have been behind the new Read more ...

Apple’s PA Semi Might Not’ve Designed the iPad’s A4 Chip [Rumor]

A curious tidbit from VentureBeat: The A4 chip that Apple’s pimping hardcore in iPad promos might not’ve been done by their PA Semi team (which Apple acquired for $278 million). Their source says it was designed by Apple’s existing VLSI team, who made custom chips like northbridges for the old G5 Read more ...

Apple A4 iPad Chipset = ARM Multicore Cortex A9 + Mali 50 GPU

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According to Bright Side of the News, it turns out that newly spun Read more ...

Could 2GHz ARM Cortex A9 Chip be Future iPhone/iTablet Bound?

During ARM’s Q3 financial results announced today, 9to5Mac noticed this little gem:

including a license for ARM’s 2GHz implementation of a dual core Cortex-A9 processor.

We’ve heard about the Cortex A9 before. Purportedly, is 5x faster than an intel Atom, yet uses the same amount of power in a 60% smaller package.

Could this be [...]

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