There’s not much secret left in the sauce for the iPad’s A4 chip – it’s a faster, customised version of the chip in the iPhone 3GS. But the recipe probably comes from a tiny chip design firm Intrinsity. More »
Intrinsity is a little chip design company that specialises in really fast, really power-efficient ARM processors, like the ones found in the iPhone, iPad and basically every other smartphone. Well, it looks like Apple just bought them. [EDN, MacRumors]