Apple Will Use Its Own Chips: Is Anyone Surprised?

on 07/13/2009, filed in Home > Apple

Note: this is not an Apple Product

The news that Apple might be using its own chips to power an upcoming tablet device is sweeping the Internet today. Is anyone surprised that Apple would actually use its chips? Err… it’s quite obvious that if Apple builds something that would be a “big iPhone” and that would run on the same OS, they might use something that’s similar (but beefier) to what an iPhone is… Anyway, we already know that the iPhone CPU can go much faster, but the casing can’t really take the heat. A bigger tablet will have a better cooling system. Apple will also need a new graphics core because the pixels count on the tablet would 6x bigger than the iPhone’s (assuming a 1280×720 resolution).

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