"We have a chip called A4," Steve Jobs said on stage at the iPad event, "which is our most advanced chip we've ever done that powers the iPad. It's got the processor, the graphics, the I/O, the ...

The first official Apple-branded chip, the fruit of Apple's acquisition of PA Semi, should have "a performance, battery efficiency, and cost advantage over the competition." Brooke Crothers writes ...

Tear down the iPad, and you see that the internals are quite similar to the iPhone’s, albeit nested behind a giant battery.Tear down Apple’s new A4 processor, though, and you see just how deep ...

Apple’s A4 chip, being used in the iPad, could ultimately provide a speed bump to future versions of the company’s iPhone, analysts said on Thursday. Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPad ...

"A4 runs at 1GHz while the chip on iPhone 3GS works clocked to 0,6GHz. This is one of main reasons why iPad can deliver a lively interface compared to stale iPhone one." Reference designs for the ...

As the Apple iPad and its A4 chip get ready to ship, plenty of competing products are waiting in the wings. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets ...

Since the unveiling of the iPad last month, all the public has learned about the application processor that powers the device is a two-letter name: A4. The rest of the details have been treated as ...

Specifically, the Vietnam prototype contains legible part numbers revealing the Apple A4 chip for mobile devices, the same chip powering the new iPad, says Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, a website ...

The iPad’s A4 ARM processor. Photo: iFixit and Chipworks Removing the processor from the main board, using the brute force method. Photo: iFixit and Chipworks What did iFixit and Chipworks find ...

At the 2005 Fall Processor Forum, PA Semi outlined a vision ... Apple will have to find yet another vendor for CPUs. But now, with the iPad’s A4, Apple has demonstrated a new option: It has ...

Apple’s A4 chip, being used in the iPad, could ultimately provide a speed bump to future versions of the company’s iPhone, analysts said on Thursday. Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPad ...

Apple’s A4 chip, being used in the iPad, could ultimately provide a speed boost to future versions of the company’s iPhone, analysts said on Thursday. Apple introduced on Wednesday the iPad ...