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A lot of the excitement about the iPad after its unveiling at in late January had to do with its custom, Apple-designed A4 processor — but a new report says that the chip may in reality be nothing “to write home about.”
AppleInsider is reporting on the new findings by Jon Stokes of Ars Technica, who wrote over the weekend that Apple’s custom 1GHz system on a chip for the iPad is really just a single Cortex-A8 CPU with a PowerVR SGX GPU. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Cortex-A8 CPU is the same chip used in the current iPhone 3GS — although the handset is clocked at 600MHz, while the iPad’s Apple A4 is reportedly 1GHz.
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