Traditionally, Apple has been content to stay a step behind the latest processor technology, and reap the power efficiency benefits, and that's just what we heard it would do again... but today, right now on stage, the Cupertino computer company unveiled a mobile chip with quad core graphics, not a quad-core CPU. This is the Apple A5X.
The A5, if you'll recall, had a integrated PowerVR SGX543MP2, a dual-core graphics chip that did quite nicely in games, but recently the PlayStation Vita used the quad-core version of the same chip, the SGX543MP4. We've got a hunch that's what you'll find inside the A5X as well. Apple says the new graphics abilities will be responsible for pushing pixels to that new 2048 x 1536 resolution Retina Display,...
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