Those chips have some faster components and more of them, so you may think those chips perform better than Apple’s. But the reality is that we hardly use the entire capacity of the chips that come in our mobile devices. One or two high-performance cores are enough for most of what we throw at ourweiterlesen

Der Geekbench ist mittlerweile bestätigt; einen nicht weniger beeindruckenden SunSpider-Javascript-Wert liefert AnandTech („The result is the fastest SunSpider test we’ve ever recorded on a smartphone„) und Halbleiter-Analyst Linley Gwennap merkt bislang unbekannte Details zur Entstehung von Apples A6-Prozessor an. At this point, Apple has spent about $400 million to buy PA Semi and Intrinsity, tensweiterlesen

AnandTech korrigiert seine Vermutung über den A6 im ‚5er‘. Und plötzlich wird die Geschichte um den neuen iPhone-Kern noch spannender. For unpublishable reasons, I knew the A6 SoC wasn’t based on ARM’s Cortex A9, but I immediately assumed that the only other option was the Cortex A15. I foolishly cast aside the other major possibility:weiterlesen