A6 chip: More Apple, less ARM

Apple A6 may be a more unique Apple design than first believed.
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Apple’s chip investments may have borne native fruit with the A6.
The iPhone 5’s A6 may be more of an Apple creation than previous A series chips, according to an updated post by review site Anandtech.
Like Qualcomm, Apple is incorporating more of its in-house expertise into chips. And that means it’s getting further away from pure ARM designs. For example, the latest design from U.K.-based ARM is the Cortex A15, which Texas Instruments is using in future chips.
But Apple isn’t going that route, according to…

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