Apple is said to be already meeting with chip suppliers as it looks toward production of its next-generation "A6" mobile processor in 2012. The iPhone maker is said to have recently visited packaging ...

This article has been updated, please click here to read further about the iPod Touch. Read here for more info on the A6 in the iPhone 5. Anyone curious about both the iPhone 5 and iPod Touch may have ...

Apple’s next iPad will be faster and more power-efficient thanks to its new, quad-core A6 processor, but the new tablet may not be ready to ship until next June, an industry analyst said Monday. The ...

Samsung is expected to remain the primary chip supplier for Apple and its anticipated next-generation A6 processor despite a bitter patent dispute between the two companies, according to a new report.

LONDON – Foundry chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) – said to have started trial manufacturing of the ARM-based A6 processor for Apple – will put the IC through another ...

The iPhone 5’s processor might be faster than we thought. According to TLDToday, the A6 is clocking in at 1.3GHz after an update to the Geekbench benchmarking app, which is supposed to do a better job ...

Apple commercials usually tout what the iPad and iPhone can do rather than the innards running them. That doesn’t mean Apple isn’t actively working on making your next iOS Device super-duper, ...

Interesting analysis. One quibble, though. The RAM on these things is typically a separate die which is then combined with the CPU/GPU die during packaging, so the space required for 512 MB vs 1 GB ...

The iPhone 5 smartphone has the A6 CPU, which industry experts say is the first in a line of many upcoming Apple custom processors that will better balance performance with battery life in iPhones and ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...