Inside the iPhone 5: What makes it tick
The Apple A6 chip. The combo CDMA-LTE Qualcomm chip is at bottom.
(Credit: Apple)
Apple’s revamp of the iPhone included an overhaul of the inside too. So, what new silicon did Apple drop into the iPhone 5’s chassis?
A6 chip: It’s faster! (duh). Here’s a summary of what Apple says. “Up to twice as fast compared with the [iPhone 4S’ A5 chip]…The A6 chip also offers graphics performance that’s up to twice as fast as the A5.”
Problem is, Apple doesn’t say much beyond that. So, I asked Anand Shimpi at chip review site Anandtech. While some of it’s guesswork until reviewers decap the phone’s…
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