Ipad 3 Won T Include Quad Core Processor

Immediately after those purported iPad 3 back-shell photos broke loose, The Verge claimed Apple’s next-generation tablet would not include a rumored quad-core processor. The Verge‘s report contradicts findings inside beta builds of iOS 5.1 and a report from the typically accurate Bloomberg. While The Verge said the next iPad would be dual core, it also said the iPad 3 would sport an improved GPU. This new graphics processor would likely make the rumored huge Retina Display run smoothly. We deduced from earlier reports that the processor is codenamed “S5L8945X,” and it comes out of Samsung, who is busy working on both dual and quad-core processors for its own devices.

• iPad 3 to not include quad-core processor? (9to5mac.com)
• Bloomberg: iPad 3 production starts for March launch, packs Retina Display, LTE, quad-core chip (9to5mac.com)
• Debug tool shows quad-core A6 and LTE capabilities on iPad 3 (9to5mac.com)
• Rumor: iPad 3 launching in March, “strange” Apple event due February (9to5mac.com)