Apple's A6 processor could be company's first custom-designed CPU core

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    solipsismx wrote: »

    I'm not sure what you're trying to show me in that quoted text. I see nothing about ARM.SoCs or Apple ASICs.

    NAND for the primary storage tends to quite large. The NAND in the iPhone 4S is 24nm and it's still not small. It might be bigger than the A5 chip.

    iFixit oddly didn't have a good pic of the back side of the iPhone 5 logic board so here is the board from from the iPhone 4. The A4 is obvious and the NAND is that big ol' chip on the reverse side of the board. It's close to the A4 but it's not part of the ASIC.


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    "Apple already uses an Anobit-designed DSP chip in iPhones, iPads, and MacBook Airs to extend the life of the NAND flash chips in those devices."

    At the time Anobit was acquired, Apple was using their ASIC DSP chips, likely, separate chips on the board. It may be that the A6 design includes this architecture in the SOC package...

    My assumption here is that Apple had been working on this for a while and originally planned to license the IP -- then just decided to buy the company...

    The best part is that Sammy is going to pay for the Anobit acquisition that will prevent Sammy using the IP in its own designs.


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    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,663member
    "Apple already uses an Anobit-designed DSP chip in iPhones, iPads, and MacBook Airs to extend the life of the NAND flash chips in those devices."
    At the time Anobit was acquired, Apple was using their ASIC DSP chips, likely, separate chips on the board. It may be that the A6 design includes this architecture in the SOC package...
    My assumption here is that Apple had been working on this for a while and originally planned to license the IP -- then just decided to buy the company...
    The best part is that Sammy is going to pay for the Anobit acquisition that will prevent Sammy using the IP in its own designs.
    ...There's more than one way to skin a [copy] cat!

    Yes, if this tech is in the SoC, rather than in seperate chips, that would be a very good upgrade. It would use less power, be quicker to respond, and take up less space, providing more space on the boards for other IP.

    But until a phone is acquired, and taken apart, it's just speculation as to how Apple has done this.
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