Verizon iPhone, iPad 2, iPhone 5 to Use Dual-Core CPUs

Verizon iPhone, iPad 2, iPhone 5 to Use Dual-Core CPUs

December 31st, 2010

Daniel Silva

There are a few upcoming tablets that will be sporting dual-core ARM processors. Among those are Motorola’s Android Honeycomb tablet, and the imminent PlayBook. You’d expect Apple to have a plan, and yes they do.

According to a recent analyst note, the iPad 2 will also be making a similar jump if it’s going to stay competitive in the market.

A research note by a analyst at Rodman & Renshaw says the following:

Apple is on track to refresh the iPad by March and iPhone by late summer. A key component upgrade across these platforms will be a dual-core processor featuring a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores.

Kumar also says it doesn’t expect the iPad to be the only iOS device to get a dual-core upgrade next year, saying he also thinks the iPhone 5 (and most likely the next iPod Touch), will make the jump as well. With dual-core, it’s possible iOS 5 will focus even more on multitasking than iOS 4. In the end, Kumar sees a big a year for iPad in 2011:

iPad supply has largely satiated demand and Apple can sustain quarterly shipments at around 6 million/quarter. At these levels, Apple would capture about half the forecasted market for 2011.

What do you think? If everything else is making a jump for dual-core, I don’t see any reason why Verizon iPhone, if and when it will release, won’t be sporting one.

[via Cult Of Mac]

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Tags: iPad 2, iPhone 5, Verizon iPhone

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Nuff nuff

I agree
iOS lvr, mac h8r

I really doubt this. Apple invested huge sums of money developing an in-house engineered and hand crafted A4 processor. They will not abandon such an investment only a year after instituting it. What a waste of R&D if that were the case. I imagine they will maintain the A4 (or a close variant thereof) this year and maybe next year Apple will engineer the A4-2 to be a dual core (or better) upgrade from the existing models.
iOS lvr, mac h8r

I really doubt this. Apple invested huge sums of money developing an in-house engineered and hand crafted A4 processor. They will not abandon such an investment only a year after instituting it. What a waste of R&D if that were the case. I imagine they will maintain the A4 (or a close variant thereof) this year and maybe next year Apple will engineer the A4-2 to be a dual core (or better) upgrade from the existing models.
Gatortpk

People need to remember that Sprint’s 4G isn’t the true LTE 4G. Sprint’s (WiMax) 4G is only slightly faster (at around 10 Mbps in a good area) than 7.2 (or 14.4 possible) Mbps 3G.
Verizon and AT&T use the true LTE 4G, and when fully deployed will provide 100 Mbps mobile and 1Gbps (yes 1,000 Mbps) stationary (fix location). That blows away even FIOS! (Currently).
Also LTE 4G is all the same, no more different GSM and CDMA technologies, so the iPhone 4G/5 (with LTE 4G support) will be the same for either Verizon or AT&T.

Gatortpk

Again, my point with the above post is that LTE 4G is all the same between AT&T and Verizon, so the iPhone supporting LTE 4G will use the same technology for either carrier. (No more differences between incompatible GSM and CDMA technologies)