iPhone 5 powered by the A6: 2x the power and 22% smaller

10. TheLibertine posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:04 3 2

They never say much about the clock speed, cause they mostly concentrate on graphics performance. But double the performance without additional cores would mean... Something like 1,5 GHz Dual Core.

14. FiddyPence posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:06 2 10

Apparently there using ARM A15 cores.

20. TheLibertine posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:08 3 4

I guess that should be it. Apple never gave much about clock speed.

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27. remixfa posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:15 12 4

They are not using A15's. The die shrink would be more than 22% from the 40nm chip used in the i4s. That points to a 32nm chip.. which means its the rebranded Exynos 4212 again, like they use in the iPad. That means its still an A9. Apple is almost never on the forefront of the speed race. They want the chips cheap while still being semi powerful.
The iphone has no use for that much power as it is, much less the power of an A15.. lol. That's like having a ferarri Enzo and being told your never allowed to go over 30mph.

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34. Jobes posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:27 4 1

AHH I enjoy the Enzo comment ;) made me all warm and tingly inside, love that car.

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41. kabel posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:58 1 1

I guess we will see, but it may be based on A15's:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6279/apples-iphone-5-uses-a6-soc-arm-cortex-a15s-inside

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44. Berzerk000 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:09 2 2

They said it's 22% smaller than the 40nm chip in the 4S, that's about 32nm, which means it's still A-9, and it's just a rebranded Exynos 4212 with a different GPU.

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47. kabel posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:33 2 0

Apple designes and lays out their SoC, Samsung is just a foundry, doing what Apple tells them to manufacture ...

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49. Berzerk000 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:38 0 2

That's all Apples processors have been, rebranded Exynos. They use the same architecture, same process of making it, and even the same company makes it. Apple just slaps their own name on it.

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50. kabel posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:51 1 0

Samsung SoC desing team and the Samsung Foundry are two separate entities, and besides that are competitors. This one of the reasons why Apple whant to stay away from Samsung Fab; two competing companies using the same foundry could have some intelectual property leaks from one to another and vice versa. Have you compared die-shots from Apple SoC and Samsung SoC? I'll tell you they are very different (Siri, camera ISP, ...). They don't slap Apple name for sure. Anyway they are stuck with Samsung, because Intel won't do Apple's SoC's ... If Intel agrees to do Apple's SoC, then Apple will dropp Samsung Foundry in a heart bit!

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52. remixfa posted on 12 Sep 2012, 15:26 0 2

that is conjecture. my conjecture says that its the A5X underclocked. They agree that its 32nm in size, which fits with the already used Exynos 4412 rebranding in the A5X.. which also sports a much bigger GPU than the i4s did.

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53. kabel posted on 12 Sep 2012, 15:49 1 0

32nm is very possible. Why do you think that they are rebranding Samsung SoC's? Apple already swallowed SoC design companies, and they do design their own, not just take whatever Samsung has on the shelf (like Exynos 4412 you keep referring to). From what i know, only thing that they share is the same fab process (since they are using the same foundry, which dictates the process), and that is all. How the fab process is related to possibility of having A15 in A6? Why can't A6 be A15 based on 32nm process?

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30. Droid_X_Doug posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:21 6 2

Who care about the speed? There are 5 rows of iCons now.

Yawn. As I posted in other threads, it is an incremental improvement over the 4S.

6. PAPINYC (limited) yesterday, 00:57 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:01 1 2

You skipped i4 and i6 and, the yet released, i8 and i9, respectively.

8. Vinayakn73 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:03 0 2

thanx a lot 4 oh sorry for reminding me. i is gonna lost from english dictionery
i miss u i

9. Vinayakn73 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:04 1 1

in ceos head

19. robotgedek posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:08 3 1

-meanwhile at LG headquarters-

24. SleepingOz posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:12 1 1

i4s was worse dude.

23. Vinayakn73 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:12 1 1

they are sucking lolipops. lil wayne gave them

29. kimoz posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:19 1 1

quad core

32. remixfa posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:24 0 1

dual core CPU. The GPU will be quad core.

33. Savage posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:27 0 1

*sigh*
I guess they are saving extra cores for the 5S next year.

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35. remixfa posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:29 0 1

why in the world will iOS need quad cores next year? is the OS actually going to do something other than be a list of icons? No need for it. As long as they keep increasing the GPU, people will be happy.

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36. Savage posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:34 0 2

Haha, you got a point. Not much to do with a icon-grid launcher. Unless they introduce true-multitasking.

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43. Droid_X_Doug posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:05 0 1

Multi-tasking for iMaps. That definitely requires quad-cores. Kind of like having to chew bubble gum and fart at the same time.

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48. Savage posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:37 0 2

Thats funny because even single core androids can offer multitasking easily. And iOS needs dual or quad-core to multitask just one app.

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39. remixfa posted on 12 Sep 2012, 13:38 1 2

yea, you go find that iphone5 quad core.

when you come back to reality from your fantasy land, you can try that statement again.. lol.

BTW, the SGS3 is a quad core phone with a quadcore GPU.
The i5 is a dual core phone with a quad core GPU.

46. Berzerk000 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 14:18 0 0

The OMAP 4460 was out done by the Exynos 4212 in benchmarks if I'm not mistaken. Which is basically what the A6 is, a rebranded Exynos. Also, if it has the GPU that the new iPad does, it will be even more powerful. The A6 has better performance over the Galaxy Nexus, but you are right about the OS.