wraggster
February 20th, 2012, 20:57
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/02/ipad3logicboard.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/20/ipad3-a5x-cpu/)
Well, if it looks real, sounds real and is halfway logical, we probably should distrust it all the more. Yes, it's the time when all the rumors (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/17/alleged-ipad-3-retina-display-examined-under-a-microscope/), photoshops and general hysteria (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/wsj-apple-testing-8-inch-ipad/) around Apple's next slab (http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/13/ipad-3-rumor-high-res-display-quad-core-lte/) reaches its apex. The photo above was grabbed by the steady hand of sas126, a blurrycam (http://www.engadget.com/tag/blurrycam/) snapper in name only, and posted to Chinese site Weiphone, purporting to be the logic board for the iPad 3 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ipad+3/). The big news (if true) is the "A5X" silicon, suggesting we'll see an incremental enhancement rather than the wholesale revolutions evident in the A4 (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-powered-by-custom-1ghz-apple-a4-chip/) and A5 (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/ipad-2-specs-discerned-900mhz-arm-cortex-a9-and-powervr-sgx543m/) chips that accompanied its predecessors. The SoC (http://www.engadget.com/tag/soc/) (with the Apple logo, to the right of the two Hynix memory modules) carries a date-stamp of 1146, suggesting it was produced in the 46th week of last year. Of course, now that we're getting so close to the actual event, whatever Tim Cook (http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/25/tim-cook-who-is-apples-new-ceo/)whips out on stage (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/09/apple-announcing-ipad-3-first-week-of-march-anonymous-sources-t/) will never match whatever we'd conjured up on our own hearts: so try to dampen down that rampant excitement because we've still got 17 days left to wait.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/20/ipad3-a5x-cpu/
Well, if it looks real, sounds real and is halfway logical, we probably should distrust it all the more. Yes, it's the time when all the rumors (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/17/alleged-ipad-3-retina-display-examined-under-a-microscope/), photoshops and general hysteria (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/wsj-apple-testing-8-inch-ipad/) around Apple's next slab (http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/13/ipad-3-rumor-high-res-display-quad-core-lte/) reaches its apex. The photo above was grabbed by the steady hand of sas126, a blurrycam (http://www.engadget.com/tag/blurrycam/) snapper in name only, and posted to Chinese site Weiphone, purporting to be the logic board for the iPad 3 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ipad+3/). The big news (if true) is the "A5X" silicon, suggesting we'll see an incremental enhancement rather than the wholesale revolutions evident in the A4 (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-powered-by-custom-1ghz-apple-a4-chip/) and A5 (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/ipad-2-specs-discerned-900mhz-arm-cortex-a9-and-powervr-sgx543m/) chips that accompanied its predecessors. The SoC (http://www.engadget.com/tag/soc/) (with the Apple logo, to the right of the two Hynix memory modules) carries a date-stamp of 1146, suggesting it was produced in the 46th week of last year. Of course, now that we're getting so close to the actual event, whatever Tim Cook (http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/25/tim-cook-who-is-apples-new-ceo/)whips out on stage (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/09/apple-announcing-ipad-3-first-week-of-march-anonymous-sources-t/) will never match whatever we'd conjured up on our own hearts: so try to dampen down that rampant excitement because we've still got 17 days left to wait.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/20/ipad3-a5x-cpu/