If the A5 is any indication, then, we'll be spending the next few years with the A6 chip that Apple introduced in the iPhone 5 yesterday. While the A5 is a thoroughly known quantity at this point ...

A report on on Saturday reveals Apple's new A6 processor is actually the company's first attempt at designing a custom ARMv7 core, possibly debunking earlier claims that the silicon was using ARM ...

That fall, Apple released its A6, which again doubled both its CPU and GPU performance over the previous year. Writing for Anandtech, Anand Lal Shimpi stated that "it looks like Apple has ...

As part of their iPhone 5 announcement, Apple revealed that the new iPhone is powered by a new "A6" processor from Apple. The A6 is said to have twice the CPU power and twice the GPU power of the ...

Apple's A6 chip is being test-manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, marking a shift away from Apple's traditional manufacturing partner Samsung, according to Reuters.

Over the last week, more and more details of Apple's custom A6 processor design have come to light, including a custom armv7s-compatible core design and its triple-core GPU. Detailed analysis by ...

Apple announced it’s got a whole new chip for the iPhone 5. It’s called the A6, which is a semi-surprising upgrade to this year’s iPad’s A5X. No word on whether it’s quad core or not ...

Apple's next-generation CPU (expected to be labeled the A6) has been the subject of a great deal of speculation of late. Here's a look at what to expect, and what's likely just rumor. Share on ...

Samsung sold around $7.8 billion worth of components to Apple in 2011, according to one report. And production of the A6 for the iPhone 5 will reportedly bring in more money for the Korean company ...

Thanks to fuming sulfuric acid, an ion blaster, and a good microscope, we can finally see what makes the iPhone 5 tick. Getting to the heart of the A6 isn't easy. The processor first needed to be ...

iFixit and Chipworks have partnered on a teardown of the A6 system-on-a-chip, Apple's custom design that powers the iPhone 5. While several of the high-level details such as 1 GB of RAM and a dual ...

This is the same A6 system-on-a-chip inside of Apple’s iPhone 5, and this would offer significant speed improvements for the iPad mini compared to the current A5-based model. The A6 chip will ...