[geeks] iPad - a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Mark Benson]

On 29 Jan 2010, at 15:59, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> You assume that reusing a couple of ARM cores precludes building in
> additional Apple specific hardware to reduce the parts list.  We won't
> know how much they integrated onto the A4 chip until someone does a
> teardown and sees what is missing.

I wasn't assuming that at all really, I was just pointing out the  
backbone of the system is plain-as-I ARM components. There may well he  
a lot of other stuff in there but I was just indicating the  
performance and power characteristics are fairly easy to duplicate if  
it's largely using standard cores, rather than heavily customised  
cores designed in-house that no-one else has access to.

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