I just learnt something really surprising and really interesting.
At first, people thought the A6 SoC in the IP5 was going to be ARM A9 quad based. Then the keynote came around, and apples lack of any mention of quad core, yet still boasting better battery life and double performance led to many beleiving it was the A15, even the experts like Anand beleived this. But now Anand has revealed that actually, it is a custom Apple designed processor. It is based off the ARM instruction set, but that is all - other than that, it is entirely Apple designed.
Didn't think Apple would ever actually do this.
At first, people thought the A6 SoC in the IP5 was going to be ARM A9 quad based. Then the keynote came around, and apples lack of any mention of quad core, yet still boasting better battery life and double performance led to many beleiving it was the A15, even the experts like Anand beleived this. But now Anand has revealed that actually, it is a custom Apple designed processor. It is based off the ARM instruction set, but that is all - other than that, it is entirely Apple designed.
Didn't think Apple would ever actually do this.