Early iPad Air 2 benchmark suggests tri-core CPU, 2GB of RAM

Ars Technica
By Andrew CunninghamOct 21, 2014, 6:00 pm567 pts
The iPad Air 2 in profile. Its new A8X chip is stacking up pretty well. Andrew Cunningham Apple's iPad Air 2 contains a new chip called the A8X, an SoC that's faster than the A7 in the original iPad Air or the iPad Mini 2 and 3 and the A8 in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Apple would only say that the chip's CPU…

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