Your next iPhone will be a 4-core processor

2012 will be marked by serious competition for Apple in the mobile market, which is already actively making their way 4-core solutions and future products based on iOS should be ready for it. Proof of this is the information about some features of the internal code beta version iOS 5.1, pointing to a new system-on-chip (SoC) Apple A6.

Deep inside the iOS 5.1 code was discovered by a line «/cores/core.3», which is the simple inhabitant of nothing to say, but in fact it determines the number of processor cores (ie, four). Now mobile products from Apple are working on the basis of the A5 dual-core processor, which is determined by «/cores/core.1» code. Such signs may not be very clear, but in reality everything is logical when it comes to running the internal code. According to the same system of single-core chip has «/cores/core.0» code.

Naturally, Apple has not commented on these data, published 9 to 5 MacJournalists who also reminded that more than once slipped rumors about Apple A6 - a new generation of SoC mobile, built on the basis of the 4-core processor. That it should be the basis of iPad 3 and iPhone 5, which is confirmed in the above code.

In addition, the use of a 4-core chip in the next generation iGadzhetov is logical due to the banal competition. For example, ASUS, introduced in the autumn of Transformer Prime tablet based SoC NVIDIA Tegra 3, contains four processing cores ARM Cotrex-A9. Moreover, strange as it may sound, but the 4-core systems are more economical than the 2-core by using an additional fifth core, the so-called companion. It works at a reduced frequency, and sharpened on the effective implementation of simple operations, such as processing of simple interface and web pages, play videos, music and so on. D.

Do not forget about Apple's plans for the Retina-display implementation in iPad 3. To process images with ultra-high resolution of the new system-on-a-chip is not superfluous.