This year we could witness a new leap in performance in the mobile and tablet market. While 2011 was marked by the emergence and proliferation of devices based on dual - core processors - and they were the Samsung Exynos, the Tegra 2 of NVIDIA, the OMAP4 from Texas Instruments or A5 from Apple, among others, in 2012 banking doubles the bet, so we are waiting to see what the manufacturers propose from terminals based on quad-core architecture , or equipped with quad-core processors.
Apple may be one of those participating in this new landscape of devices. In fact, it is almost taken for granted, based on the forecasts of specialists and analysts in the sector, that the iPad 3 and iPhone 5 - these being the provisional names to refer to the terminals with which those of Cupertino will renew their catalog of tablets mobile phones, respectively, during this year - will equip this powerful heart, which we would know in these specific cases with the name of A6.
Through the 9to5Mac site, however, we get clues that help lay the foundations of these rumors. As they have known in that medium, among the information contained in the Beta of iOS 5.1 - the next update of the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch system -, it has been possible to deduce that the platform already includes data about future devices with four processors. nuclei. To reach that conclusion, from 9to5Mac they would have consulted specialists in Apple's system who have helped to translate part of the data that can be observed among the visible information.
According to this, it can be observed in a couple of sections of the code lines referring to the processor data that contain the notes cores / core.1 and cores / core.3 . At first glance, not much information could be extracted about this. However, the sources consulted by 9to5Mac assure that there is the key to knowing Apple already contemplates the use of iOS 5.1 with quad-core terminals.
According to the specialists we have referred to, the Cupertino mobile platform refers to mononucleus devices as cores / core.0 , with dual-core mobiles and tablets corresponding to the description cores / core.1 . From here, the sources consulted point out that the annotation referring to cores / core.3 would refer to the presence of quad-core processors in future Apple terminals.
That being the case, and considering that the company's next launches will be the iPad 3 and iPhone 5, the bets about possible quad-core chips in these devices are stronger than ever. Despite everything, at the moment there is no confirmation in this regard, so we will have to wait. In any case, and taking into account that the new iPad is the candidate to make itself known more quickly, the presence of the quad-core processor in this device would almost immediately clear up the unknown of the phone that would be released during this 2012.
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