{"id":240503,"date":"2010-01-28T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/28\/apples-a4-is-an-arm-based-system-on-a-chip-a-la-tegra-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T05:09:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T10:09:29","slug":"apple%e2%80%99s-a4-is-an-arm-based-system-on-a-chip-a-la-tegra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/240503","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s A4 is an ARM-based system-on-a-chip a la Tegra 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightsideofnews.com\/news\/2010\/1\/27\/apple-a4-soc-unveiled---its-an-arm-cpu-and-the-gpu%21.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/28jan10owub453.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For some of us, amid all the hubbub about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/27\/the-apple-ipad\/\">revolutions and whatnot<\/a> yesterday, the most significant announcement on hand was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/27\/ipad-powered-by-custom-1ghz-apple-a4-chip\/\">Apple&#8217;s supposedly custom A4 CPU<\/a>. Alas, in the cold and brutal light of the morning after, we&#8217;re hearing that it is in fact a system-on-a-chip driven by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/Cortexa9\">Cortex-A9 MPCore<\/a> CPU &#8220;identical&#8221; to the one found inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/nvidia-announces-tegra-2-tablets-coming\/\">NVIDIA&#8217;s Tegra 2<\/a>, while besting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/06\/10\/iphone-3g-s-processor-specs-600mhz-cpu-256mb-of-ram\/\">iPhone 3GS<\/a> significantly with its 1GHz speed and multicore architecture. The chip is composed of that Cortex barnburner, an integrated memory controller, and the Mali 50-series GPU, making it an all ARM affair &#8212; though we still don&#8217;t know how much Apple and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/20\/analysts-debate-pa-semis-role-in-forthcoming-apple-wares\/\">PA Semi<\/a> did in terms of arranging and integrating those components within the silicon. While still not 100 percent confirmed, it would seem there were no revolutions on the iPad&#8217;s processing front &#8212; just a rebranded bit of well engineered hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/28\/apples-a4-is-an-arm-based-system-on-a-chip-a-la-tegra-2\/\">Apple&#8217;s A4 is an ARM-based system-on-a-chip a la Tegra 2?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:44:00 EST.  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