AnandTech has discovered that new Apple television will use the same WLAN+Bluetooth antenna/chip combo that the iPhone 5 makes use of in addition to an A5X processor slightly than the A5.
The unreleased Apple tv revision used to be first instructed via an iOS 6.1 firmware unencumber for a previously unseen AppleTV3,2 version. Then, a new FCC application published that the new Apple tv would have moderately smaller dimensions than the currently delivery model.
AnandTech writes:
instead of the A5R2 SoC (S5L8942) throughout the Apple television three,1, this new device accommodates an A5X SoC (S5L8947) as shown in the screenshots I’ve taken of the restore.plist file, though there are a lot of others. it’s fully possible that Apple is again the use of completely different bins of the A5X, it is not possible to tell whether or not CPU or GPU cores are fused off at this level from my digging in the course of the IPSW.
The A5X chip (with Quad-Core graphics) was once firstly offered to power the brand new Retina visual display unit of the iPad 3.
It was once in the present Apple tv that Apple first used the 32-nm (die shrunk) A5 chip. It was once believed on the time that Apple had used the Apple tv has a take a look at platform to start ramping up that new 32-nm A5 processor before they began the use of it more broadly to energy the still-for-sale iPad 2.
It appears probably that Apple will follow the same pattern with this new A5X — first ramp up production in the Apple tv, and later prolong its use to the new iPad mini. the next iPad mini is believed to incorporate a Retina display. Apple will wish to upgrade the iPad mini’s CPU/GPU in order so to accommodate the additional pixels of one of these display.
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