Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has finally begun producing Apple’s A-series processors. Per the Wall Street Journal and AppleInsider, TSMC started production on its 20-nanometer fabrication lines in the first quarter of 2014, with shipments commencing in the second quarter. While Samsung will reportedly remain one of Apple’s top suppliers for now, the company will split […]
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For some reason, assorted lawsuits between two large tech companies don’t do anything to improve the relationship… According to the Korea Times, Apple may be doing all it can to cut ties between itself and Samsung. Though Apple still relies on Samsung for production of its mobile processors, the iPhone maker has apparently made it […]
You have to admit: a quad-core ARM processor in your new iPhone would qualify as nifty. Per a Thursday report from DigiTimes, Apple’s next-gen could feature a quad-core processor according to industry sources. Other details on the rumored processor, including clock speed or graphics processing capabilities, were not presented. Last year’s iPhone 4S features a […]
You may love your new iPad 3, but it’s been commented as a toasty beast. Per Engadget, thermal imaging of a side-by-side comparison of the third-generation iPad and the iPad 2 found Apple’s latest tablet running 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) hotter than its predecessor. Dutch site Tweakers.net performed the GLBenchmark test on the two generations of […]
It’s that time again and the cool cats at iFixit have performed a full teardown of Apple’s new third-generation iPad to discover the following: – In removing the LCD panel, the solutions provider got a look at the back of the new Retina display. There, they found a model number naming scheme that suggests the […]