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this doesn't actually tell you anything about the processor, just that it's in the package, under two ram dies, and that it's single core "so must be an a8".
by andrewcooke 17y ago
this doesn't actually tell you anything about the processor, just that it's in the package, under two ram dies, and that it's single core "so must be an a8".
- acg 17y agoIt tells you more than that: it's not an A9 and does not contain a GPU. So doesn't it dispel some rumours? What did you expect?
- hga 17y agoNo, it just asserts that because there's only one core it has to be an A8 (superscalar, no provision for SMP) not an A9 (out-of-order speculative issue superscalar, single core and 1-4 cores SMP versions).
- andrewcooke 17y agowell as far as i understand things, an arm chip is a collection of modules that perform different functions. so it could have described which modules are present (you'd need to grind horizontal sections). also, although i guess more difficult, it could perhaps have tried to look at what makes this chip different. arm chips seem to be pretty common; what was so special about this that apple needed to do their own?