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- thesauce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The xScale is an ARM processor ;) Btw, I clicked that first thing that supposedly confirms that Intel processors won't be in the iPhone, yet the article stated nothing about Intel at all.
Hopefully they will use the XScale. I have a PPC-6700 that has a stock 416mhz XScale Processor that was easily overclockable to 520mhz. At this speed, I run Final Fantasy 7 on the PS1 PowerPC emulator at pretty much full speed (with or without sound). - GonadHunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Why dont we just wait and crack one open when its released, i have a hammer and chisel we can use
- Raider8654, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So we can buy stock in the company that's producing the chip, obviously.
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's hilarious when you see how iSuppli could have the break down on iPhone's cost, when we don't even know what processor it use yet.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That'll work out really great when Apple black-masks the chip and prints some gobblty-gook that means nothing to the layman on its package like they did to the Nano. The only way we'll likely ever know for sure is to cut the damned mask off and look at it under a SEM.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am rather surprised iPhone isn't going to pack one of the low power PowerPCs from Freescale. You can clock them really slow and only draw a few microamps, and then speed them up while you're running applications. Pretty much the same deal as ARM. Just that PowerPC is all set to run OSX. :)
- MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's going to be using a Samsung chip. That's the end of it.
- Jangles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Months and months of digg stories speculating on the iPhone, it hasn't even come out yet and now we will have months and months of stories about its successor?
I think I will pass. - BigLou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I think they should put the Cell in there!
Why stop there? Add in a few blue laser diodes and a 60 gig hard drive! - icon7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3more info: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2423
- mikewitt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If you RTFA, you would see that it is NOT an XScale processor. It's because it uses VFP, which XScale does not support, however other ARM11 processors (The XScale is an ARM7) do support VFP. Marvell got the contract, so it will be one of their variants.
- jemaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3help me out, why does any one care what the processor is?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36502.
- bigtrouble77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3thesauce,
Just wondering who you link is going to make emulators for the iphone if apple isn't opening it up to developers? - Aleks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It will have a cell processor in it.
- DallasTexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is confirmed that the iPhone has a low power version of Itanium.
- Radian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@mikewitt: Those who live in glass houses..... the XScale is absolutely not an ARM7 not even close. It has an ARM ISA (it's ARM v5TE), but way beyond the ARM7 in architecture. Google for the details....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was going to bury you, but since you've disrupted an Apple fanboy thread you've got my thumbs up! ;-)
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2PS1 was MIPS r3000 processor, not PowerPC. the r3000 is significantly simpler and inferior to pretty much every PowerPC.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Err I apologize about my first post, the PXA3x0 family (what Marvell is shipping now) is an ARM 5vTE core, just at 90nm and clocked damned fast. I guess I just figured it would be an ARM11 based on its shipping clockspeeds or something.
Damned 2 minute editable comments.. - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2IIRC Intel was working on an XScale based around the ARM11 called "Monahans" that could clock up to a GHz, and this was the whole reason Marvell purchased the XScale division (to get at these high performance ARM cores). Seems like the logical conclusion at this point that Apple is using Monahans in their iPhone.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You're all wrong its a neuronet processor thinking machine
- tumbleweed05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2xscale would be really cool. such a good proc for the iphone also with all of the media capabilities.
- s14rider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I checked the Marvel Technology website. On its front page there is a news section with a title called "The New Game is in Town" . Read it! I think it just gives us hint(it mentions ipod!) that they provide the processor for the iPhone.
"A New Game’s in Town
Tomorrow’s Cell Phone, Today
So many of us use a cell phone as our main communications device, we take its basic functions for granted: phone calls, text messaging, and basic camera. Add a few bells and whistles—a 2D game to pass the time, a 1.3mp digital camera—and it’s on the cusp of being a multimedia device. And yet, it generally falls short. In reality, it can’t quite replace that PC experience we are used to when we need to get serious about our productivity or our entertainment on the go. The screen resolution is too low. The pictures aren’t clear. The battery doesn’t last.
Imagine a handheld mobile device that offers all of the conveniences and productivity of your PC—advanced multimedia capabilities of your mobile entertainment device (iPod, portable DVD player..), all with a long battery life. Today’s smartphones deliver features and functionality that blur the line between the cell phone, PDA, laptop, and the mobile entertainment device. ." - wouaren, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3buzz processor ?
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2So we could have a break down of Apple's profit margin, and see how greedy they are.
- kaddy69, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7who cares??? I'm so sick of hearing about the over priced iPhone. Digg me down if you must.
- jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Intel said it was theirs so it has to be a XScale
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3So the iPhone is really an Acorn computer ;)
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