The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead

by Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech (9/15/2012 2:15:00 PM)

When Apple announced the iPhone 5, Phil Schiller officially announced what had leaked several days earlier: the phone is powered by Apple's new A6 SoC.
 
As always, Apple didn't announce clock speeds, CPU microarchitecture, memory bandwidth or GPU details. It did however give us an indication of expected CPU performance:

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