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The Apple iPad's A4 Processor Runs an ARM9 Core (or Maybe a Cortex-A9)-February 8, 2010 |
Buried under the mounds of hype connected to Apple’s iPad announcement was the tiny piece of information that Apple had designed its own processor, the A4, to run the device. I became interested in this facet of Steve Jobs’ latest assault on the high-tech toy market after reading that several Apple employees responsible for the A4 design had left Apple to found a new processor design company in San Jose called “Agnilux” and I was curious enough to do a little more digging.