The next generation of smartphones and tablets will bet on the four cores. Or even by the five cores (as it has been known from the possible bet of NVIDIA with its future Kal-El processor). The PS Vita console, for example, already includes a chip of this architecture designed by ARM (and it will go on sale in a couple of months, at least, in Japan).
In fact, the iPad 3 itself, whose existence in the prototype phase is already a reality according to some sources, would be based on the new generation A6, which would be based on a quad-core architecture that would expand the power of the latest edition of its successful tablet, the iPad 2.
The latest rumors insist in this direction. As a developer who analyzed the tools included in the Xcode environment has been able to notice, among the source code he was able to notice the presence of a section that indicated the compatibility of the tools with which he was working with a new generation of ARM processors that, according to one deduced of the editors of the Ars Technica site, it could be related to an imminent raid of quad-core chips in Apple terminals.
As they are ARM processors, from sites such as Boy Genius Report they rule out that they may be components intended for the firm's desktops or laptops (although it could come as a surprise that it is included in a future generation of MacBook Air ultraportables, currently based on Intel's Sandy Bridges, with dual-core design).
That is why betting terminals focus on mobile from Apple, starting with the future iPad 3 (which, if they leave the accounts of what we have seen so far, could be submitted within six months). In fact, there has already been talk on other occasions about the possibility that the third generation of tablets from the Cupertino firm carry a four-core processor, following the rising line in power that has been noticed between the two current editions of the device..
In any case, for the moment it is simply a matter of tracks that do not have the support of Apple, although they are beginning to broadly configure the profile of what we could find in the future iPad 3. Until now, there has been talk of the presence of an AMOLED screen with a resolution that would double the quality of the last current edition, as well as an even slimmer design with a lighter weight. The battery will also be renewed, favoring precisely the sharp design of the next edition without entailing a reduction in the autonomy of the device.
