The Latest iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup

Wondering what’s next for the iPhone 5? Rumors are pointing to four-times faster MultiCore CPU, advanced graphics, and payments technology.

The iPhone 5 rumor mills continue to churn busily, with more pieces of the specifications and features puzzle gradually leaking out, at least speculatively. Apple’s policy is to never publicly discuss or comment on unreleased products, so nothing will be confirmed until the iPhone 5 is officially unveiled. However, that’s never stopped Apple fans from speculating about what’s coming next. It’s part of the fun.

iPhone 5 To Get Faster, Multicore Processor?

The latest scuttlebutt is that iPhone 5 will be powered by an Apple-designed A5 processor, believed to be an updated multi-core enhancement of the single core A4 chip currently used in the iPhone 4, iPad, Apple TV, and the 4G iPod touch according to a PC Mag report.

If you’re not familiar with the term, multi-core refers to a central processing unit (CPU) that incorporates two or more complete execution cores in a single integrated silicon chip. Multi-core processors are especially well-suited for multitasking environments because with are two or more complete execution cores instead of one, each its own cache or quick-access temporary storage memory, the operating system will be provided sufficient resources to better handle multipletasks in parallel and do it faster. In short, it means being able to do more things faster.

It’s speculated that the A5 chip could be as much as four times faster than the A4, likely incorporating a system-on-a-chip ARM Cortex-A9 processor (or an upgrade of the Cortex-A9, code-named ‘Eagle,’ with a clock speed of up to 2 GHz). It has also been suggested that the A5 will be paired with an Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX543MP2 integrated graphics and video processor (IGPU) that is anticipated to provide twice the power of the SGX535 IGPU used in the A4, and that is expected to also be capable of supporting Apple’s OpenCL technology that enables transferring general processing demands to utilize any idle IGPU processing capacity for faster task execution.A report by Appleinsider’s Daniel Eran Dilger discusses the particulars of that rumor in detail

Whatever actually materializes, we can pretty safely assume that the iPhone 5 will be substantially faster, and more capable of rendering graphics and video than its predecessors, facilitating the implementation of true multitasking support in the iOS.
source: http://iphone5newsblog.com/