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  • Chip strip reveals 'handmade' Apple A6--Dual-core CPU, three GPUs exposed

    09/29/2012 7:59:50 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 13 replies
    Reghardware ^ | 25th September 2012 16:09 GMT | Tony Smith
    Electron microscope photos of an Apple A6 processor lifted out of an iPhone 5 confirm the presence of a dual-core ARM CPU within the system-on-a-chip plus a trio of Imagination Technologues PowerVR graphics cores. The SoC was pulled from the handset by the team at iFixit.com, and the die extracted from its ceramic package and then photographed by Chipworks. Source: iFixit.com/Chipworks Close-up snaps of the transistors show the part to be fabbed - by Samsung - on a 32nm process using high-K metal gate technology. The SoC 9.70 x 9.97mm die is labelled 'APL0589B01'. The CPU element's dual-core design is...