After ready its first show in the iPad 2 , the next stop for Apple ’s A5 silicon chip could be in the next version of the iPhone , where it would bring a substantial rise in graphics and app performance without compromising battery life , analysts say .
The A5 microprocessor , announce by Apple at the iPad 2 launch on Wednesday , would provide the next iPhone with better - quality FaceTime videoconferencing , and gaming capableness that could grant it to compete with hand-held gaming console table , those analyst said .
“ What it would institute to smartphones is increased [ processing big businessman ] for computationally intensive app , ” such as photo and motion picture applications , order Nathan Brookwood , principal analyst at Insight 64 . “ Those do require more horsepower under the hood than you would get with a single - Congress of Racial Equality processor . ”
The A5 chip , designed by Apple and base on an sleeve design , has two burden running at 1GHz , versus a single 1Ghz core in the A4 processor , which was used in the first iPad and the current iPhone 4 . The A5 provides twice the CPU functioning and nine sentence the graphics power of its herald , according to Apple .
Apple has n’t announce the next version of the iPhone or let out its specification , but the company has unloose new example in the eye of each year since the first iPhone come in out in 2007 .
The A5 adds “ a lot more pep pill to affair you do everyday , like surfing the Web , sending e - ring armor and multitasking,”said Bob Mansfield , aged vice president of ironware at Apple , in a telecasting on Apple ’s Website .
More significant is the artwork boost , which falls in line with Apple ’s destination of improving the video capabilities on its machine , said Jack Gold , principal analyst at J. Gold Associates . “ If you ’re trying to do dense media - intensive apps , it does matter , ” he said .
If it is introduced , an iPhone with the A5 chip wo n’t be the first dual - nucleus smartphone . Motorola ’s Atrix 4 G , which has a talk prison term of up to nine hours , run away on a dual - core sleeve processor . LG ’s Optimus 2X , which is available for pre - order and due later this month , also uses a dual - meat subdivision chip .
Brookwood said the A5 could be a step ahead in Apple ’s efforts to bridge the gap between tablets and Macbooks . Like Motorola ’s Atrix smartphone , the next iPhone could be plug into a docking facility with a screen and a keyboard to give it laptop computer - like functionality .
The A5 could ultimately make its way toApple TV devicesas well , analysts said . Apple does n’t have a big contribution of the TV market , but a chip like A5 could be a differentiator if it put up full high - definition video . The be Apple video equipment , which use the A4 flake , plays picture at only 720p resolution .
Apple embark nigh 50 million products in 2010 based on its A4 processor , admit the iPad , iPhone and Apple TV , accord to research firm IHS iSuppli .
analyst said the A5 chip may be based on ARM ’s Cortex - A9 design , which is used in Nvidia ’s Tegra 2 chip . The next lucid step for Apple would be to make a quad - core version , which would hand over even more processing business leader .
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month , Nvidia announced a quad - core microchip computer code - name Kal - El , which it claims is twice as fast for World Wide Web browse as the dual - core Tegra 2 , which is used in Motorola ’s Xoom tablet . Qualcomm also herald a quad - core Snapdragon chip for mobile twist at the show .
