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X-Ray of Apple A5 Chip Reveals Samsung as Manufacturer [Images]

X-Ray of Apple A5 Chip Reveals Samsung as Manufacturer [Images]

Posted March 15, 2011 at 11:29am by iClarified
X-rays of the Apple A5 processor chip reveal that Samsung is the manufacturer and not TSMC as rumored earlier.

Chipworks compared the A5 processor to the A4 processor to confirm it came from the same source.

At this scale even electron microscopes start to run out of steam, so not the clearest of images in either case, but good enough to see the similar shape of the transistor gates and the dielectric layers. So at least this sample of the A5 is fabbed by Samsung, just as all Apple’s processor chips have been for the last while.


They also confirm the 512MB of RAM.

Flash memory is flash memory, the DRAM in the A5 package is 512 MB instead of 256 MB, and the touchscreen control uses the same trio of chips as the iPad 1 – not even a single chip solution as we've seen in the later iPhones. And the 3G version uses the same chipset as the Verizon iPhone launched a few weeks ago.

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HEMAN
HEMAN - March 15, 2011 at 2:22pm
Give me strength!!!
farpthor
farpthor - March 15, 2011 at 1:34pm
Yeah, one can clearly say, looking at those images, that the chip manufacturer is Samsung indeed.
JBRO
JBRO - March 15, 2011 at 2:07pm
Yep, I concur, it is offiial; Samsung made. I double check and confirmed it with my kids.
Noman
Noman - March 15, 2011 at 5:08pm
I am somewhat of an expert in this field and can definitively confirm that that is the work of Samsung.
namedb
namedb - March 15, 2011 at 6:38pm
yeah it screams samsung all over
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