The story behind the making of Processors iPhone 5

San Francisco, USA - It takes a little time and no cost for Apple to create A6 chip used in the iPhone 5. Here is the story behind the making of 'brains' operational control mobile phone.

Apple is not messing around when they want to set up the chip for the latest generation iPhone. In fact they are quite willing to spend in order to make the chips as expected, it gives birth to A6.

Apple does not explicitly describe what kind of trip they make the chips A6. But Linley Gwennap as consultant leaders chipmaker called The Linley Group had recorded a long way before delivery lunge Apple A6.

Born of a StrongARM

StrongARM is a power-efficient microprocessor that began production in 1990, and until now the chip architectures continue to be used to develop new variants.

Apple itself also looks seriously want to develop a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of their own, it is further reinforced as they acquire chipmaker PA Semi for USD 278 million.

Judging from the history of its length, PA Semi does look quite competent to make energy-efficient chips, but still powerful. Plus a number of teams in it are the developers and designers StrongARM chip PowerPC processors.

License from ARM

A few months after buying PA Semi, Apple quietly signed a licensing agreement with ARM chip architecture. This means that Apple has approved to make the power-efficient chip.

Can calculate the complicated physics calculations

Successor to the A5 chip to be made as sophisticated as possible, even the late Steve Jobs had asked the chip can perform complex physics calculations. For example, when simulating objects falling through graphical display, or the wind blowing leaves.

Features like it had been used on computer processors and the latest graphics cards, and is not likely to be used by current mobile chips.

Although not as powerful as a PC owned or GPU, but the successor to the A5 chip is expected to perform physics calculations well. The team behind the making of the A6 was well aware of these limitations.

Officials left PA Semi

Maret 2010 adalah salah satu bulan yang buruk bagi Apple. Satu persatu pejabat PA Semi mulai pergi. Mereka adalah Dobberpuhl, Leo Joseph dan Mark Hayter. Ada kekhawatiran rancangan chip A6 yang diinginkan tak kunjung sampai.

Namun untungnya, ketiga orang tersebut tidak beperan besar terhadap pembuatan CPU. Dobberpuhl dan Joseph banyak berurusan dengan bisnis, sementara Hayter hanya merancang ditingkat System on Chip (SoC).

Chip was born a6

In early 2010 Apple began to find bright spots. Chip design for this is obvious, and they live determine if only outer design matches the phone.

Well, to design the physical appearance of the chip Apple bought Intrinsity. A Texas-based chip designer agency that was acquired for USD 120 million.

"This agreement brings an experienced team of chip designers specifically designing high berpeforma chip. A6 Apple has received a sample last summer, and to support the launch of the iPhone 5 chip is then produced from June," writes Gwennap.

Successor A6 Chip