Apple's A6 Features A Manual Layout of the Dual-Core CPU

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  1. News Bot iFans.com News

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    News Bot, Sep 25, 2012
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  2. JKJones Well-Known Member

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    No wonder Foxconn has to run a slave shop over there.

    Edit: Let's go ahead and retract this whole post.
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  3. tinyman392 Super Moderator

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    Samsung manufactured the A6... So... Yeah...
    tinyman392, Sep 25, 2012
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  4. _JKK_ Front Page Reporter

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    The manufacturing of the chip itself is done by machine (obviously... we're talking 32 nanometers here), but the chip was laid out and designed by humans before it was put in to mass production.

    By Samsung.
    _JKK_, Sep 25, 2012
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    Kewlio.
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  6. blunden Active Member

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    Interesting article. It still seems more similar to the Qualcomm S4 to me in terms of approach than to the A15 so not sure why that keeps getting repeated.
    blunden, Sep 25, 2012
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  7. Will Ouyang Active Member

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    So what's the difference between this and the A5? Is it because the cores are placed by hand? Sorry if I sound like a noob, I'm not that knowledgeable with chips.
    Will Ouyang, Sep 26, 2012
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  8. SilverShip Well-Known Member

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    Don't understand why laying it out manually makes it faster than laying it out with a machine?
    SilverShip, Sep 26, 2012
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  9. JKJones Well-Known Member

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    Re-reading now i understand what this means. I assumed Foxconn because i was thinking this had to do with the assembly of the device. So yea stupidest post i've ever made by far. Retracted.
    JKJones, Sep 26, 2012
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  10. tinyman392 Super Moderator

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    LOL. We all make mistakes :)
    tinyman392, Sep 26, 2012
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