Information on Apple’s A5 Processor For iPad 2 and iPhone 5
AppleInsider has some pretty good information about the successor to the A4 processor that is worth taking a look at if you are an Apple product fan. Apple’s next generation iPad and iPhone, both due the first half of this year, will pack a new version of the company’s custom A4 chip, with dual, faster graphics cores capable of supporting a Retina Display iPad and potentially bringing 1080p HD support to iOS devices, including Apple TV.
Apple’s next custom System on a Chip is expected to jump from the SGX535 (which has been used since the iPhone 3GS) to the new SGX543 graphics and video core, which is said to offer around twice the processing power at the same clock speed. The new graphics core also supports OpenCL, used to offload general purpose computing tasks on the GPU for fast execution. Outside of graphics, Apple will reportedly be using the multiple core ARM Cortex-A9 for general purpose processing.
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