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Fourth-generation Apple iPad has quad-core PowerVR SGX 554 GPU, Apple has touted the fourth-generation Apple iPad as being twice as fast as the previous model. At the heart of that claim is the A6X chip which is 30% larger than the A6 inside the Apple iPhone 5. To illustrate the difference, the GFlops score for the newer iPad at 300MHz doubled to 76.8 the 38.4 scored by the third-generation model. GFlops is a unit of computing capacity representing 1 billion floating point operations per second.

So what did Apple do with that extra space it added to the A6? It went to an extra graphics processing core of which there are now 4 on the chip, up from the 3 on the A6. While the CPU size remains the same on the two, the GPU cores are larger on the A6X. Not only that, but when looked at through a microscope, the 4 GPU cores are divided into 9 sub-cores, two sets of 4 and 1 central sub-core.

One analyst says this could be done for better parallel processing, or for a faster clock speed. Either way, he says that graphic speed will be blazing on the fourth-generation iPad thanks to the PowerVR SGX 554 GPU in the A6X. The chip also has double the SDRAM interface of the A6. All together, it sounds like Apple has really beefed up its full-sized tablet in time for the holiday shopping season.

source: Chipworks via AppleInsider
Via: Phonearena

After losing grounds to the likes of Xiaomi, Huawei wants to get back into the game in China. So, they will move on from their home SoC K3Vx to MediaTek chips.

The Xiaomi Red Rice (HongMi) has changed the entry level smartphones in China and so far, rivals came up short. But Huawei is saying, behind unofficially that their next smartphone would take the throne when it comes to budget phones.Until December, 12th, here is what rumors are talking about.



The Huawei Honor 5C is said to pack the very first MT6588 Quad Core chip. The MT6588 is the undersized version of the MT6592 Octa Core using the same powerful GPU Mali-450 MP4 but at a lower clock speed : 600 MHz instead of 700 MHz.
So it is still very powerful especially when you know that old Mediteks chips were seriously lacking graphic power.

The rest of the specs are impressive too, the Honor 3C is said to be also the first budget phone to be equipped with 2 GB RAM alongside a 4.7 inch Display. Price wise, it should start from RMB 999 ($160/€118).