Apple buys chip designer Intrisity for $121 million
Apple has bought chip designer Intrisity for $121 million. Given the rapidity and speed of the Apple A4 chipset debuted alongside the iPad, rumors have persisted that Intrisity was behind the new system-on-chip (SoC), but confirmation took a while to arrive.
Intrisity was able to take the standard ARM Cortex A8 found in 650MHz flavor in [...]
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4th gen iPhone to have ceramic backing, Apple A4-like SoC?
Following up on the crazy that was yesterday’s iPhone G4 (iPhone HD/iPhone 4G) hardware leaks, Daring Fireball looked into the glass-like backing of the device, and brings up an old Apple patent for fancy, futuristic ceramics:
Multiple sources familiar with the next iPhone have confirmed to me that the back is made out of [...]
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Apple A4 vs Snapdragon – Clash of the Chipsets!
AnandTech has put the iPad’s new Apple A4 chip-to-chip against the Windows Phone- and Google Android Superphone-powering Snapdragon from Qualcomm in a clash of the 1Ghz titans. And the results?
To quote Steve Jobs – boom!
If we take the network out of the equation, the A4 in the iPad has a 37.6% performance advantage [...]
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