14 DAY TRIAL // A rumor that few granted as much credit as they should have, talk of the A5X chip was confirmed during Apple’s special event yesterday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, California.
The silicon is not exactly the minor incremental bump we were led to believe. According to Phil Schiller, the chip has quad-core graphics, which allows it to output some amazing visuals on the 3.1 million pixels boasted by the new iPad’s display.
The tech-specs page for the new iPad describes the chip as follows: “Dual-core Apple A5X custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip with quad-core graphics.”
The news actually corroborates another rumor as well - that the iPhone 5 is expected to be the first device to pack the next-generation A6 chip which, in all senses, should be quad-core.