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Network edition AppleInsider, traces news from the company Apple, published on its pages a little analysis of the new chip A4, which provides work released last week tablet iPad . First of all, the review authors note that the A4 - it is not just the processor, the so-called "system-on-Chip" (System-on-a-Chip, SoC), which also include graphics and memory controller. According to recent data, in A4 integrated ARM processor Cortex-A9 MPCore, which is also used in the platforms Nvidia Tegra 2, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Texas Instruments OMAP4 and several others. A4 clocked at 1 GHz, is made of 45-nanometer process, has 4 cores and the second-level cache (L2) volume of 2 MB. The maximum power consumption does not exceed 0.3 Tues The role of the GPU executes ARM Mali 50. For comparison - the difference in performance Cortex-A8 (which now runs iPhone 3GS) and Cortex-A9 is 10-20%, which is very significant and noticeable. In addition, A9 more economical battery costs when performing simp...

With Apple, as usual, there is a lot of interesting and controversial - and sometimes just strange. I'll start with the fact that Apple has recently unveiled the results of its work for the 2008 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 27. Just figures At the end of 2008 financial year turnover increased by 37% on the previous year. Net sales rose to $ 32 billion compared with $ 24 billion in 2007. Gross margin remains relatively stable last year and is 34%. At the same time, the company does not exclude the lower gross profit in 2009 to 30%. In the 2008 fiscal year, sales of computers Mac reached 9.75 million devices, up 38% on the previous year when the figure stood at 7 million computers now occupy the most significant place in the structure of revenue Apple. At the end of the fiscal year, revenue in this product segment totaled $ 14 billion with an annual increase of 38%. The company noted that sales of mobile computers MacBook demonstrate strong growth. The share of notebooks accounted ...