The iPhone 5’s A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead →
Anand Lal Shimpi:
It turns out I was wrong. But pleasantly surprised.
Fair warning: if you don’t know, for instance, that the Apple A5 contains a pair of Cortex A9 cores, you may not find this article interesting (or even intelligible). But if that’s the sort of geekery you’re into, this is very interesting, and it’s starting to sound like Apple’s acquisitions of P.A. Semi and Intrinsity weren’t just to glue off-the-shelf GPUs and CPUs together, paint an Audi’s name on top, and call it a day.