Apple's iPhone could be next to get dual-core A5 chip

03.03.2011

Analysts said the A5 chip may be based on ARM's Cortex-A9 design, which is used in Nvidia's Tegra 2 chip. The next logical step for Apple would be to make a quad-core version, which would deliver even more processing power.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, , which it claims is twice as fast for Web browsing as the dual-core Tegra 2, which is used in Motorola's Xoom tablet. Qualcomm also announced a quad-core Snapdragon chip for mobile devices at the show.