Apple A5x

Updated Apple TV taken apart, reveals tiny A5 system-on-a-chip

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Mar 11, 2013 a 1:45 am

Earlier this year Apple updated the Apple TV with new internals. There was no press release and no public statement of any kind, just a slightly updated model trickling its way into inventory. Well, MacRumors got their hands on one, took it apart and found what looks to be an even smaller version of the Apple A5 system-on-a-chip. Eric Slivka reports:

Rumored details on iPhone 5 processor chip, GPU, other under-the-hood hardware

By Simon Sage, Thursday, May 31, 2012 a 1:50 pm

A recent leak of an iOS 6 beta which is expected to launch next week at WWDC has revealed some interesting info about the upcoming iPhone 5. We've already seen plenty of what the exterior hardware will look like, but on the inside, we can expect a Samsung 5L8950X ARM processor that is internally branded as the A5-***.

Apple screens, chipsets proudly made in the U.S.A.

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, May 30, 2012 a 10:20 am

As part of his D10 Conference interview last night, Apple CEO Tim Cook used the occasion to once again respond to critics of Apple's China policies and remind them key parts of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are in fact made in the U.S.A -- including the Corning Gorilla Glass screens and the Apple A4, Apple A5, and Apple A5X chipset "brains".

New iPad teardown shows A5X processor made by Samsung, increased die size for quad-core graphics

By Simon Sage, Monday, Mar 19, 2012 a 11:10 am

The fine folks at Chipworks have taken a closer look at the new iPad, particularly at the upgraded A5X processor. They were able to confirm that the new processor was made by Samsung using a 45 nanometer CMOS process.

iPad 3 event preview

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Mar 1, 2012 a 3:24 pm

Complete rumor rundown of Apple's upcoming iPad 3 event, from release date to hardware hopes and software speculation

Apple's next generation iPad 3 will almost certainly be announced on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, California. Everything else about it, however, is still up in the air. That's nothing new. The road to every Apple product release is paved and pot-holed with rumors true and fake, and this one is no different.

Still, while Apple is secretive they do tend towards patterns. What they've done in the past can indicate what they may do in the future. That's what we're going to look at here -- sift through all the recent rumors and try to figure out what makes sense.

Apple rumored to be working on both A5X and A6 chipsets for next generation devices

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 a 7:13 pm

iMore heard Apple was going quad-core with a full on, next generation A6-powered iPad 3, so did Bloomberg, but The Verge heard dual core and strings have been found identifying a less ambitious A5X chipset instead. Which one is it? Both? Neither? Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac thinks it's almost certainly both.