Comrade Snarky wrote:
It'll be a VERY cold day in hell when the A6 is a quad core. Considering that the iPhone and iPad share the same processor and that the 4S obviously gets less battery life with the dual core A5, the A6 won't be quad core. There's no chance they would limit the quad core A6 to the iPad either. That would lead to a pretty massive fragmentation of the app store. While iPad and iPhone apps are kept relatively separate, many apps function as both. There have been some interesting advances in battery technology, but they won't be to market for a few years. Dual core is more than enough power as is.
Must've been out for those last few sentences or something. I know the post started out as a prime argument for why Sega NEEDS to release something now and should stop dilly dallying if such a machine exists, because not only are they losing time, they are losing potential market share, and relevance in the tablet market(again putting forth the thought if this indeed factual.), in doing so I seem to have forgotten what I was typing at some point and input some other speculation.
The A5, more battery intensive yes, but the 4S still has one of if not once again the best Battery life of current smartphones.
Next chip will either be slightly higher clocked A5/A6, The same A5 as now, or in faint(really faint) possibility assuming Apple gets to using some of those battery patents they have, a quad core. Regardless, I wouldn't put it past Apple to go over a year or two, 3 at max before returning to power standards and adopting a quad core.
I could reference moore's law with that, but IBM virtually destroyed it in a way by making a byte of information out of 12 atoms.