? For starters, unlike the single core configuration on the A4 processor, Cortex-A9 is capable of carrying multiple-cores – as many as 16 cores. This will extend peak performance to unprecedented levels. You may remember that Apple 's A4 chip is based on the ARM Cortex-A8 single-core configuration.
It is however worth noting that even the single core version of the ARM A9 processor is likely to double theARM Cortex-A8performance level from the (more…)