Did you think the iPad 3 rumors from previous months were gone for good? Well, they‘re not. I know, we’re rolling our eyes at the rumors too, but they may be worth mentioning. Even though these rumors seem to be far fetched at this time, we’d like to leave the door open for us to pull the “we told you so!” routine should they actually come true at some point. Everybody likes a gloater, right?
Asian research firm CLSA is suggesting Apple will release the next version of its tablet, iPad 3, before the holiday season at the end of 2011. WSJ.com’s MarketBeat blog posted a short story about the iPad 3 rumors today.
“While most vendors appear fixated on matching the specs and features of iPad2, our checks suggest Apple will release iPad3 in time for the holiday season, sporting a better display and LTE capabilities.”
CLSA went on to mention they don’t expect a new LTE iPhone in 2011.
Another juicy rumor comes from the senior editor at Microprocessor Report, Linley Gwennap, by way of Barrons.com. Gwennap gives some interesting insight into Apple’s iOS processors and how that technology is giving Apple an edge over its competitors.
He writes that Apple:
“has gone for bigger chips than the ‘merchant’ silicon offered by vendors such as Nvidia because it can get greater performance at the same price: Apple doesn’t pay the markup it would have to give to Nvidia or another company. Larger chip, same money, in other words.”
Gwennap goes onto say that the next processor we’ll see from Apple will most likely be the A6 chip that includes quad core technology. The current A5 chip in iPad 2 is a dual core processor. Running much too hot for iPhone 5, the new chip will probably only be included in iPad 3.
The Microprocessor Report editor leaves us with a little mystery about the current A5 chip:
“Gwennap notes that about 33 square millimeters of the A5 is extra circuitry that can’t be accounted for. It’s not the CPU, it’s not the GPU, it’s not any kind of integrated functions, such as wireless controller logic, etc., as all of that stuff is still external to the processor, as it was in the A4.”
Has Apple made room on its current chip design for a more meatier processor in the future? Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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