Tuesday, February 21, 2012

iPad 3 logic board with ‘A5X' chip purportedly snapped, no quad-core processor after all?

iPad 3 logic board with ‘A5X' chip purportedly snapped, no quad-core processor after all?

Well, if it looks real, sounds real and is halfway logical, we probably should distrust it all the more. Yes, it's the time when all the rumors, photoshops and general hysteria around Apple's next slab reach its apex. The photo above was grabbed by the steady hand of sas126, a blurrycam snapper in name only, and posted to Chinese site Weiphone, purporting to be the logic board for the iPad 3. The big news (if true) is the “A5X” silicon, suggesting we'll see an incremental enhancement rather than the wholesale revolutions evident in the A4 and A5 chips that accompanied its predecessors.

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