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Apple A5 is dual Cortex A9, PowerVR SGX 543MP2 competition stomper

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151 days
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Apple A5 is dual Cortex A9, PowerVR SGX 543MP2 competition stomper
While Apple believes the mainstream cares more about iPad 2 experience and feeling than feeds and speeds, Anandtech clearly favors the latter and using an array of tests, they claim they’ve deduced that — as suspected — the Apple A5 system-on-a-chip is indeed powered by an ARM Cortex A9 CPU and Imagination PowerVR SGX 543MP2 GPU. It’s also fast, beating out not only the 2010 iPad’s A4 but the 2011 Motorola Zoom‘s Tegra 2 in a number of benchmark tests. In the CPU and JavaScript render tests iPad 2 was a little faster than iOS 4.3 on iPad 1 a···

TiPb Answers: Apple A5 chip — what we know and what we guess

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TiPb Answers: Apple A5 chip — what we know and what we guess
Just like the original iPad debuted with an Apple A4 chip, iPad 2 is coming with an Apple A5 chip. What does that mean? In typical fashion Apple has been short on details saying only that it’s dual-core, 1GHz, 2x faster for computational tasks and 9x faster for graphics, all while preserving the 10 hour battery life that made the A4 famous. They don’t think we need to worry about what CPU or GPU they’re using and how much RAM is on board to let that power breathe. But here’s the thing — many of us want to know exactly that. This is the chip ···

iPad vs iPad 2: RAM performance in Mobile Safari

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iPad vs iPad 2: RAM performance in Mobile Safari
As you can see from the video above, the iPad 2 using the Apple A5 chip combined with more RAM performs much better than the original iPad when browsing in Mobile Safari. If you load up all nine tabs, you’ll see that the original iPad starts to choke up pretty badly when compared to the iPad 2. This is due to the original iPad only coming with 256MB of RAM while iPad 2 comes packed with 512MB. (We hoped for as much as 1GB in the video before getting more test results back. Maybe next year!.)The original iPad tends to “kill” background tabs···

TiPb TV 17: iPad 2 tourist

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TiPb TV 17: iPad 2 tourist
We’re back from flu enforced hiatus with an all new episode of TiPb TV featuring Apple’s all new iPad 2! There’s so much to cover we’re going to be breaking it up over several shows and fair warning — we’re going to be having fun with it. (If you want a more traditional look, go read our iPad 2 review.)This time around Rene and I take a look at iPad 2′s Apple A5 chipset and iOS 4.3‘s JavaScript Nitro engine to see just how fast games like Infinity Blade can launch and websites like TiPb.com can render. Then we take FaceTime and the iPad 2′s ···

Apple introduces iPad 2, ships March 11

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171 days
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Steve Jobs today announced Apple’s iPad 2, with an all-new design that’s 33% thinner — 8.8mm — 0.2lbs lighter — 1.3lbs total — and includes an Apple A5 processor. The A5 boasts dual-core 2x CPU speed and 9x graphics speeds. Other hardware improvements include front and rear FaceTime cameras, a gyroscope, and more.a€?With more than 15 million iPads sold, iPad has defined an entirely new category of mobile devices,a€? said Steve Jobs, Applea€?s CEO. a€?While others have been scrambling to copy the first generation iPad, wea€?re launching iPad ···

Bringing specs to an experience fight

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171 days
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It occurred to me recently that Apple is successfully reframing the market so their competitors look like they’re bringing specs to an experience fight. From hammering “post PC” in their iPad 2 introduction to the time spent on GarageBand and iMovie, Apple was clearly trying to not only raise expectations for what mobile devices should look and work like, but how they should be considered. They’re a feeling, an interaction, a smile, a riff, a clip. They’re jazz.2x faster, 9x better graphics, thinner, lighter. Apple said that much but beyond ···

iPad 3 Might Initially Lack the A6 Processor

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238 days
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According to an analyst, the hyped A6 processor chip will reach the iPad 3 later in 2012 than on its release date. The analyst projects that it won be until June 2012 at the earliest that we could see the rumored quad-core A6 make its way under the hood of Apple iPad 3.You may remember how Apple has recently brought on TSMC for production of their chips which could cause some yield uncertainties as well. Samsung currently manufactures the Apple A5 processor which rests in your iPad 2, but because of the ongoing legal battle and other relati···
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