Analysts: iPad 4’s graphics upgrade packs a punch
The A6X chip inside the iPad 4.
(Credit: Chipworks)
At its silicon core, the fourth-generation iPad is hardly an incremental upgrade, according to chip analysts.
The new iPad’s A6X chip packs a brand-new graphics engine that boasts a serious step up in horsepower from the third-generation iPad’s A5X.
“Nothing’s incremental about this. The A6X is one massive processing machine,” Jim Morrison, a product manager at Chipworks, which does reverse engineering and patent-infringement analysis of semiconductors and electronic systems, told CNET.
Chipworks posted an analysis of the A6X’s circuit…
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