A new report from Taiwan confirms some of the rumors we’ve been hearing about the iPad 2, but refutes one big one.
A Taiwan-based analyst has just released a report that gives the most comprehensive picture of the next generation iPad that we’ve seen yet. Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities sees a faster, more powerful iPad with a dual core processor and more Ram. Kuo states: “iPad 2 will use [ARM] Cortex-A9 dual core processor running at 1.2GHz. Increasing 1~2% single core processor clock results in a 3~5% power increase and dual core could get a better balance between computing power and power consumption. That’s the reason why Apple will use dual core for iPad 2.” The report adds: “iPad 2 will also have a GPU using Imagination’s SGX543 dual core graphics technology which is 200~300% powerful than iPhone 4.”
The iPad 2 will also get a boost in RAM: “For making full use of GPU upgrading advantage, iPad 2 needs bigger memory bandwidth. So iPad 2 has 512MB RAM, same as iPhone 4 and twice as much as iPad 1, but running at higher clock 1,066 MHz for getting bigger memory bandwidth (iPhone 4 memory clock is 800 MHz).”
