A9X

The folks at Chipworks have provided the first teardown of the A9X processor found inside Apple’s iPad Pro. Chipworks discovered that Apple has created another impressive chip when it comes to design, which should, again, make Intel take notice. The A9X is an extremely powerful chip, which can even top the performance of some laptops...

The launch of the iPad Pro also means teardowns, drop tests and performance tests. By the time you read this text, iFixit will have finished its usual teardown process and TechRax commenced the first drop test. How about performance? As the tests performed by Ars Technica show, the iPad Pro delivers notebook-level performance. First, the...