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New 2013 MacBook Air marks the beginning of end of Apple-Intel partnership

Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:01 pmThursday, July 18, 201324 Comments

Apple’s new MacBook Air marks the beginning of the end of the decade-long marriage between Apple and Intel…

Apple exploring U.S.-based chipmaking deal with Globalfoundries

Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:00 pmSaturday, July 13, 201328 Comments

Apple is exploring a possible deal with chipmaker Globalfoundries…

Whoops! Intel’s Otellini passed on Apple’s iPhone

Friday, May 17, 2013 5:32 pmSaturday, May 18, 201319 Comments

For 40 of those years, a timespan that saw computing go from curiosity to ubiquity…

Apple creating development shop in Orlando, Florida for custom chip design and testing

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 amTuesday, April 16, 20135 Comments

Apple’s hardware development operations are expanding to the Orlando, Florida…

Intel opens chip foundry business to outside companies, paving way for potential deal with Apple

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:36 am12 Comments

Intel Corp has agreed to make chips on behalf of Altera…

Apple dumped ARM’s designs in iPhone and iPad, but hardly anyone noticed

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 7:32 pm7 Comments

After years of using off-the-shelf ARM-designed cores…

Analyst: Intel will stamp out Apple ARM-based iPhone processors – if Apple switches to x86 chips in iPad

Friday, November 30, 2012 3:02 pmFriday, November 30, 201235 Comments

Intel would agree to use Apple’s preferred architecture for the iPhone…

AMD plans to sell 58-acre Austin, Texas campus to raise cash

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:22 pmTuesday, November 27, 201224 Comments

AMD expects to sell the 58-acre site for between $150 million and $200 million…

Apple’s next chip architecture transition will be inconvenient, but not the end of the world

Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:03 pmSaturday, November 10, 201228 Comments

It’s been over 3 years since Apple has ensured that their operating system…

What should Apple be doing with ARM – and it’s not Macs

Thursday, November 8, 2012 11:30 am15 Comments

Apple currently benefits from Intel’s best-in-the-world manufacturing technology…

What Apple dumping Intel could mean

Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:27 am19 Comments

If Apple Inc. really dumps Intel Corp. as its provider of chips for the Macintosh…

Analysts sees Apple designed ARM-based Macs as ‘inevitable,’ eventually

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:31 amTuesday, November 6, 201229 Comments

It’s ‘inevitable’ that Apple will merge its Mac and iOS devices…

Apple hires chip design luminary away from Samsung

Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:35 pmThursday, October 11, 201211 Comments

He brings deep expertise in both PC technology as well as in products known as SoCs…

Apple’s powerful A6 a unique CPU design that’s never been seen before

Monday, October 8, 2012 3:49 pm22 Comments

Apple has developed its own central processing unit based on the chip design technology…

New iPad with Lightning connector arriving this year?

Monday, October 8, 2012 12:02 pmMonday, October 8, 201210 Comments

Signs of a possible new Lightning connector-touting iPad…

Unknown iPad running on A6-based processor shows up in app analytics log

Friday, October 5, 2012 7:13 pm14 Comments

The device’s processor targets the new ARMv7s architecture that supports the custom A6…

No chance of Intel Inside Apple’s iPhone: Is Intel’s Mac position safe?

Monday, October 1, 2012 5:01 pmMonday, October 1, 201240 Comments

Not only is Intel not inside of the iPhone 5, but the likelihood…

New Geekbench build clocks Apple’s A6 processor at around 1.3GHz

Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:04 pmThursday, September 27, 201212 Comments

As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked like…

Analysis of Apple A6 core reveals exquisite, optimized custom layout done by hand

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:00 amTuesday, September 25, 201224 Comments

Over the last week, more and more details of Apple’s custom A6 processor…

PC Magazine: Apple’s iPhone 5 is ‘the fastest smartphone we’ve ever tested’

Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:38 amSunday, September 23, 201248 Comments

With its mysterious, Apple-designed A6 processor, the iPhone 5 is unique in the world of smartphones…

AnandTech: The iPhone 5 Performance Preview

Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:58 pm46 Comments

Apple’s A6 SoC makes use of a pair of Apple’s own CPU cores that implement the ARMv7 ISA…

Apple A6 die reveals 3-core GPU

Friday, September 21, 2012 9:36 pmFriday, September 21, 201220 Comments

The image reveals two 32-bit LPDDR2 memory channels and three GPU cores…

iPhone 5’s A6 SoC SunSpider performance fastest ever recorded on a smartphone

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:02 pmWednesday, September 19, 201222 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 5’s A6 SoC is the fastest SunSpider test we’ve ever recorded on a smartphone…

Apple’s custom A6 processor the result of years of effort, including a $500 million chip development program

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:00 amTuesday, September 18, 201246 Comments

Apple’s A6 processor is the result of years of effort that has its roots in Apple’s…

Apple, and the media, bury the Windows PC

Monday, September 17, 2012 3:28 pm28 Comments

With every aspect of the iPhone 5 dissected ad nauseam by legions of tech journalists…

iPhone 5 benchmark score outperforms every iOS and Android device to date

Monday, September 17, 2012 2:15 pmMonday, September 17, 201229 Comments

The iPhone 5’s benchmark score beat out the highest-performing Android devices…

A6 is Apple’s first with custom-designed CPU cores; iPhone 5 memory size and speed revealed

Sunday, September 16, 2012 1:19 pm48 Comments

This is a huge deal for Apple. It puts the company in another league…

Intel CEO Otellini: We’ll build chips Apple ‘can’t ignore,’ for iPad and iPhone

Saturday, May 12, 2012 11:01 amSaturday, May 12, 201235 Comments

Intel outlined its plan to catch up in the smartphone processor business…

Apple to unveil iPad 3 on March 7 with quad-core A6, possible 4G LTE, sources say

Monday, February 13, 2012 6:46 pmMonday, February 13, 201236 Comments

According to sources who have been reliable in the past…

RUMOR: A6-powered Apple HDTV featuring Siri to range in size from 32 to 55 inches

Monday, December 5, 2011 2:24 pmMonday, December 5, 201126 Comments

Apple will launch their new Apple TV in time for the last quarter of 2012…

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