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Apple Ordered to Pay University of Wisconsin $234 Million in Patent Lawsuit
According to a report from Reuters, Apple has been ordered to pay the University of Wisconsin’s intellectual property management arm $234 million in damages for infringing on one of its processor patents. Earlier this week, a jury ruled that Apple has infringed on a patent owned by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) when it...
iPad Mini 4 Will Reportedly Support Split View Multitasking
Files within OS X El Capitan indicate that the upcoming iPad mini 4 will support full split view multitasking, suggesting that its internal specs will be on par with the iPad Air 2. Developer Hamza Sood and 9to5Mac first located an OS X El Capitan resource file from the Safari 9 browser that depicts an...
Apple’s Semi-Custom 8-Cluster A8X GPU Better Than Expected, Says Anandtech
After publishing their initial iPad Air 2 review last week, the guys from Anandtech have decided to do what they do best: take the device under their "microscope" and see why the iPad Air 2's SoC performs so well. And what they found under the hood surprised them. You may already know that the iPad...
A8X in iPad Air 2 Smokes Google Nexus 9’s Tegra K1 in Graphics Rendering
Kishonti Informatics’ latest GFXBench OpenGL ES 2.0 and 3.0 benchmarks have revealed that Apple's new A8X Application Processor in the iPad Air 2 is not only significantly faster than other Android tablets in CPU tasks, but also smokes Google’s new HTC-built Nexus 9, powered by the Nvidia "Denver" Tegra K1 Application Processor in terms of graphics performance (via...
Benchmarks Suggest A8X CPU in iPad Air 2 has Three Cores, 2GB RAM
According to an alleged benchmark of the new iPad Air 2 published on iphonebenchmark.net (via AppleInsider), the A8X CPU may feature a triple-core processor with 2 gigabytes of RAM. The source notes that based on Apple's IPSW files available to developers, the benchmark showing a new "iPad5,4” model appears to be a LTE-capable iPad Air 2. Another test published to...
TSMC Reportedly Lands A8X Chip Production Orders for 12.9-inch iPad
Digitimes reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) has landed chip orders for Apple's forthcoming iPad (Pro?), which will be released sometime next year. Although the source isn't specific about which iPad the chip is for, the early 2015 launch suggests that it is the 12.9-inch iPad, rumoured to launch next year. Currently, the semiconductor company...
Leaked Images Show iPad Air 2 Logic Board with A8X Chip, Touch ID Home Button Cable
Apple.club.tw has posted new images showing what appear to be a variety of components from the iPad Air 2, including the logic board, home button cable, and front panel. The first image shows the logic board of the next-generation iPad Air which contains the A8 chip used on the iPhone 6, however the chip may...