The newly unveiled Apple iPad is powered by an Apple designed custom processor called The A4 running at 1GHz. This is Apple’s first attempt on a CPU for a mobile device or a desktop for that matter.
On April 23, 2008, Apple announced that they had acquired P.A. Semi a Chip manufacturer company. It looks Apple is putting the acquisition to good use by building it’s fist major mobile chip.
According to Apple “The A4 Chip is designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful yet extremely power efficient. The performance is unlike anything you’ve ever seen on a touch-based device. Which makes iPad fantastic for everything from productivity apps to games. At the same time, the A4 chip is so power efficient that it helps iPad get up to 10 hours of battery life on a single charge.”
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February 22nd, 2010 at 8:19 pm
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