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Originally Posted by martyh

I don't know myself i was just reading this, actually the bit i understand is quite interesting

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09...-a6-processor/

Interesting link


That's again more speculation that it's "still dual-core"... but using newer and faster architecture. Ties with what AnandTech has been saying.

New ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, instead of sticking with the A9, and a new "series 6" PowerVR GPU, instead of sticking with the "series 5XT" SGX543MP2/4.

Makes sense... Why try and cram extra cores in, when you can have the same number of cores but use ones that are newer and faster. Still get the performance increase, but without the size of power issues, and without apps needing to be re-optimised to use four cores.