Apple does not explicitly describe what kind of trip they make the chips A6. But Linley Gwennap as consultant leaders chipmaker called The Linley Group had recorded a long way before delivery lunge Apple A6.
Apple is not messing around when they want to set up the chip for the latest generation iPhone. In fact they are quite willing to spend in order to make the chips as expected, it gives birth to A6.
As we quoted from Cnet, Wednesday (09/19/2012), the following is a record of Gwennap.
License from ARM
A few months after buying PA Semi, Apple quietly signed a licensing agreement with ARM chip architecture. This means that Apple has approved to make the power-efficient chip.
Born of a StrongARM
StrongARM is a power-efficient microprocessor that began production in 1990, and until now continues to chip architecture used to develop new variants.
Judging from the history of its length, PA Semi does look quite competent to make energy-efficient chips, but still powerful. Plus a number of teams in it are the developers and designers StrongARM chip PowerPC processors.
Apple itself also looks seriously want to develop a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of their own, it is further reinforced as they acquire chipmaker PA Semi for USD 278 million.
Officials left PA Semi
March 2010 was one bad month for Apple. One by one official PA Semi started going. They are Dobberpuhl, Leo Joseph and Mark Hayter. There are fears the desired A6 chip design never arrived.
But fortunately, the three did not beperan to the creation CPU. Dobberpuhl and Joseph much dealing with the business, while Hayter only design level, System on Chip (SoC).
Can calculate the complicated physics calculations
Although not as powerful as a PC owned or GPU, but the successor to the A5 chip is expected to perform physics calculations well. The team behind the making of the A6 was well aware of these limitations.
Successor to the A5 chip to be made as sophisticated as possible, even the late Steve Jobs had asked the chip can perform complex physics calculations. For example, when simulating objects falling through graphical display, or the wind blowing leaves.
Features like it had been used on computer processors and the latest graphics cards, and is not likely to be used by current mobile chips.
Chip was born A6
In early 2010 Apple began to find bright spots. Chip design for this is obvious, and they live determine if only outer design matches the phone.
"This agreement brings an experienced team of chip designers specifically designing high berpeforma chip. A6 Apple has received a sample last summer, and to support the launch of the iPhone 5 chip is then produced from June," writes Gwennap.
Well, to design the physical appearance of the chip Apple bought Intrinsity. A Texas-based chip designer agency that was acquired for USD 120 million.
Successor A6 Chip
A6 Chip is already diproduki and marketed through the iPhone 5, but that does not mean Apple is not preparing a replacement chip.
"Chances are manufactured from 2013. Apple will maintain design (A6) the same but maybe a quad core or a more powerful GPU," Gwennap predicted.
According to the predictions Gwennap next generation A6 chip Apple will present the draft in 2014 and has been carrying the 64bit architecture.
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