Updated: Samsung fabs Apple A5 processor
Rick Merritt, EETimes
3/12/2011 5:53 PM EST
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Samsung fabs the A5 processor used in the Apple iPad 2, according to teardowns of the system and chip conducted by UBM TechInsights, a division of United Business Media, publisher of EE Times.
"We can say with 100 percent certainty that this is a Samsung-made chip," said Allan Yogasingam, a technical marketing manager for TechInsights.
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