Apple’s A6 chip under a microscope: 2 CPU cores, 3 GPU cores, 1GB RAM

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By Christian ZibregSep 25, 2012, 8:43 am506 pts
Apple claims the iPhone 5 is twice as fast as the iPhone 4S (which is no slouch) in terms of processing and graphics power, thanks to the in-house designed A6 chip. You could even say that the A6 pushes the iPhone 5 ahead of competing smartphones, at least in Javascript and Geekbench tests. The A6 is clearly a…

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