The A6 processor is still a distant destination on Apple's chip road map. It isn't expected to appear in products until 2012, and analysts believe it will be quad-core, a first for an Apple A ...

If the A5 is any indication, then, we'll be spending the next few years with the A6 chip that Apple introduced in the iPhone 5 yesterday. While the A5 is a thoroughly known quantity at this point ...

Apple announced it’s got a whole new chip for the iPhone 5. It’s called the A6, which is a semi-surprising upgrade to this year’s iPad’s A5X. No word on whether it’s quad core or not ...

How did Apple arrive at the A6 chip in the iPhone 5? A longtime chip analyst documents the long and winding road. Some of the history has been documented before, but other parts are not as well known.

As part of their iPhone 5 announcement, Apple revealed that the new iPhone is powered by a new "A6" processor from Apple. The A6 is said to have twice the CPU power and twice the GPU power of the ...

Apple’s new iPhone 5 has some fresh muscle inside: The Apple A6. The new system-on-chip is 22 percent smaller than the A5, and Apple says it has twice the CPU power and twice the graphical power ...

The A6 is also based on ARM architecture, but after analyzing code, chip size and the architecture, experts have concluded that Apple has designed its own CPU from the ground up rather than ...

Getting to the heart of the A6 isn't easy ... while many of the packages inside Apple's newest smartphone look like old chips on the surface, the "iPhone 5 is not an evolution of design, but ...

The first inside look at Apple's custom A6 system on chip application processor has revealed "a very unique processor design" with what appears to be 3 graphics processor cores and dual custom CPU ...

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.

A report on on Saturday reveals Apple's new A6 processor is actually the company's first attempt at designing a custom ARMv7 core, possibly debunking earlier claims that the silicon was using ARM ...

The secret is in the new Apple A6 processor. But Apple hasn’t really said much about how the chip works. The folks at AnandTech did some detective work by examining the markings on the chip ...