Photo of Apple's next-generation iPhone in the wild - sources

A photograph containing one of Apple's fourth-generation iPhones has been lingering undetected on the web for nearly a week now thanks to having been overshadowed — quite literally — by the company's new iPad, AppleInsider has learned.

Kasper Jade 16 years ago 112

Latest Snow Leopard build resurrects Atom compatibility

Development build 10C535 of Snow Leopard update 10.6.2 retains Intel Atom support after the previous build had killed compatibility with the processor.

Brian Garner 16 years ago 42

New ARM chips offer glimpse of future Apple products

Chip designer ARM announced this week new dual core Cortex-A9 processors capable of breaking the 2GHz barrier, perhaps foreshadowing the muscle behind Apple's future mobile devices.

Neil Hughes 16 years ago 32

Apple's much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year

Exclusive: After four years of meticulous development riddled with setbacks, Apple is now racing toward an early 2010 launch of a device that may see the electronics maker redefine the portable computing market for the second time in twice as many years.

Kasper Jade 16 years ago 332

Multi-core ARM chips bound for Apple's next-gen iPhones

Apple's new iPhone 3G S hasn't hit store shelves yet but already there's talk of next year's models, which are expected to leverage ARM's multi-core processor designs in giving the touchscreen handset a significant performance boost while simultaneously increasing battery life once again.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 84

Apple's future iPhones may leverage ARM's v7 Cortex designs

With Apple's first proprietary system-on-a-chip designs still rumored to be under active development, the iPhone maker may turn to ARM's standard v7 Cortex designs for multi-touch devices it plans to launch this year before building off the platform next year.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 38

Apple's proprietary iPhone chips may not surface till next year

Apple's fairly public plans to design a family of exclusive chips to power its next-generation iPhone and multi-touch handheld products may not fully materialize until sometime next year, according to the Wall Street Journal, which provides an overview of the matter with a few additional details.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 35

Apple reportedly adding more graphics chip experts to team

Apple isn't done building its arsenal of chip designers, according to a new report, which claims the company will acquire the services of yet another expert who's enjoyed a long and successful tenure with the ATI/AMD camp.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 36

Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration

Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in boosting embedded graphics and video acceleration on the company's future handheld products.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 72

Intel ups stake in Imagination following Apple's buy-in

Two days after Apple purchased a 3.6 percent share in Imagination Technologies, Intel increased its own stake in the British graphics chip design firm to a comparable share, filings show.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 24

Apple puts former IBM exec in charge of handheld products

Apple on Tuesday confirmed the imminent departure of iPod chief Tony Fadell, saying he'll be replaced by a former IBM executive who'll oversee engineering of the company's handheld products.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 12

Apple recruits top chip designer, IBM responds with suit

Apple recently recruited a top chip designer from IBM, resulting in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the executive from taking his knowledge as "IBM's top expert in Power architecture and technology" to the Mac maker.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 95

Intel gets foot in mouth about ARM-twisting iPhone comments

Damage control kicked into overdrive at the world's largest chipmaker this week in the wake of comments from two Intel executives who had a field day badmouthing the iPhone and its embedded ARM processor during a public developer forum, apparently without the company's blessing.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 25

Intel says iPhone not capable of 'full Internet'

Intel Corp. this week used a developer forum in Taipei to tout its upcoming Moorestown platform for next-generation mobile Internet devices (MIDs) while slamming Apple's iPhone as a device bogged down by its use of ARM processors.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 79

Intel shows off working Moorestown MID device

Intel on Monday showed off a prototype handheld based on Moorestown, its upcoming Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform designed to enable a new generation of ultra-thin, touchscreen devices with extensive battery life.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 24

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