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Hardware iPad iPhone Processors Rumor

Rumor: Upcoming A9 processor could show 20-30% improvement over A8

If nothing else, the A9 processor will offer a nice speed boost over its predecessor. That’s what a graph of the forthcoming processor’s performance seems to indicate, Apple’s upcoming A9 chip beating out Samsung’s 8-core chips with a single-core score of 2090 and a multi-core tally of 3569, compared to the respective averages of 1611 […]

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Apple TV Developer Processors Rumor Software

Rumor: Apple to launch fourth-gen Apple TV, updated App Store this fall

We’ve been around this rumor before, but it seems to be picking up steam again. A new report says that a fourth-generation Apple TV, App Store and all the trimmings will arrive in September. The new Apple TV will be unveiled along with the latest iPhones, and sport Apple’s A8 chip along with a slimmer […]

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Hardware iMac MacBook Air MacBook Pro Processors Rumor

Rumor: Apple to introduce notebooks with Intel’s next-generation Skylake processors in Q4 2015

There’s some cool stuff to be had in Intel’s upcoming Skylake processor family. A leaked article that hit prior to the Gamescom trade show in Germany shows that the processors are expected to offer a 10 to 20 percent CPU performance boost in single and multi-threaded applications, with lower power consumption, and 30 percent faster […]

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Hardware MacBook Pro News Processors

Rumor: 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro shipping times slip, refreshed units rumored around WWDC

It’s the shipping times that tend to give away when a new product is in the works. Over the past several weeks, the shipping times for Apple’s 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro have increased, jumping from one to two weeks and then to two to three weeks. With the Worldwide Developers Conference taking place next month […]

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Apple Watch Hardware News Processors Uncategorized Wearables

Additional teardown, analysis finds Apple Watch CPU/GPU manufactured via Samsung’s 28-Nanometer process

The Apple Watch has gone through a number of teardowns since its release on April 24. The newest release from Chipworks has revealed the wearable to feature 512MB of RAM, a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip, an accelerometer/gyrometer from STMicroelectronics, 30 individual components inside the 26mm x 28mm S1 package, a feat Chipworks calls “quite an accomplishment.” […]