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Great title, then the article fails to deliver on its premise. Save yourself a click, the article doesn't know what's inside the A4.
by alain94040 17y ago
Great title, then the article fails to deliver on its premise. Save yourself a click, the article doesn't know what's inside the A4.
- jws 17y agoThey seem pretty sure of a Cortex A8 with 64k L1, 640K L2 and NEON instructions, but then they claim about 2 trillion instructions per second (with 6 significant digits) in the same table so I don't know what to think of it. Maybe they meant Dhrystones/sec and didn't do the divide by 1757.
- NateLawson 17y agoSure, it's a bit of an ad for their teardown report ($4500). This seems really expensive given that they haven't done a SI-style CPU decapping and imaging. This is only for board layout and a few performance tests they ran. BTW, it looks like SI was acquired by UBM TechInsights. Here's a direct link to the pdf, which gives more info than the web version. Note that their decapping and imaging seems really poor -- first photo has all metal layers intact, second seems to be badly milled so very little is visible. The article seems to hint that this is an early version and they'll be following up with more details later. http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/uploadedFiles/Comparing_Apple_Apps_Processors_and_A4.pdf http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/uploadedFiles/Comparing_Apple...