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Rumors on iPad 3 Processor

It seems to be more and more near from the release time of a new generation of iPad. Various rumors have been released which may be true or fake. But anyhow, these rumors always give us faithful surprise. A few days ago, there comes out a photo which had been claimed that is the photo of iPad 3 motherboard. And according to the representation of the image content, the processor chips used in the iPad 3 would be the A5X rather than the A6. So here we go the details about the rumors on iPad 3 processor.

No matter the new iPad will come with which processor enhanced, it will still be a good player for you to enjoy movies on. Of course, there would be less improvement on its limitations on the supported media file formats. So once you have the plan to enjoy videos with your iPad 3, then DVD and Video to iPad Converter would be a good assistant which you should never miss. Now, just back to the details of the iPad 3 rumors on processor.

Details of iPad 3 Processor Rumors

In April last year there was a news report said Samsung, which is the world's largest chip and also one of Apple's designated chip foundries, revealed that the new iPad will take use of a new styled 2GHz dual-core processor. This report also said that the processor of new iPad is still the Cortex-A9 schema, but comes with the ability to process data as well as an ordinary PC.

The latest news on the 2nd of this month has exposed a document in which it implies that the new iPad will soon be equipped with A6 processors. BGR also confirmed the model of the A4 chip is S5L8930X and A5 is S5L8940X. So the S5L8945X which showed in the leaked document apparently means A6 chips.

Then if the current exposed picture of is true, it at least proves that a new iPad with A6 chip still won't appear. According to the Motherboard information display, the A5X chip was manufactured in the forty-sixth week of 2011. This chip is also equipped with a modern 16-gigabyte (GB) NAND flash memory from Hynix. At the same time, compare with the chip found in iPad 2 dismantling, the new power management chip has a higher dash number. This means that the chip is also part of the motherboard chipset upgrade.

So there is someone point out that the conclusion that BGR given for the leaked document is wrong. After all A4 chip model is S5L8930X, A5 is S5L8940X, then the A6 should be S5L8950X rather than S5L8945X. Therefore, the conclusion inferred by combining with the motherboard exposure would be more close to the truth.

But no matter how it reported before, since this picture displays that Apple will use A5X, then it means that the upcoming product will has a faster and better processing performance. No matter it will be named as iPad 3 or iPad 2S, it may have significantly enhanced graphics core undoubtedly. Since there comes with rumor which said the iPad will launch on the upcoming March 7th, so just let's look forward what would be the specific facts in the end.

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