Steve Jobs touted a iPad’s processor as “custom silicon” and a “most advanced chip” Apple has ever finished, but it appears the association didn’t do much with it during all.

Dubbed the A4, a iPad’s brain is essentially a system-on-a-chip (SOC) consisting of the Cortex A8 single-core processor made by ARM as well as Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX graphics estimate section, tipsters have told ArsTechnica’s Jon Stokes.

In alternative words, Apple licensed chips from alternative providers similarto it did with a iPhone, and it didn’t furnish the tools in-house, which many assumed to be a case when Jobs introduced a iPad and a A4 in January.

Apple has not supposing central details upon the A4’s specifications, which is unsurprising. Apple has traditionally been sly about the expect components inside its previous products, leaving component analysts such as iSuppli to rip detached a gadgets as well as figure out the nitty-gritty details about their guts.

A Cortex A8 as well as the PowerVR SGX would have clarity, as they’re a same technologies used in the iPhone and iPod Hold. MacRumors additionally speckled a proviso in a iPad’s software growth kit which reliable a SGX is being used in a iPad.

If a A4 SOC’s tools were outsourced, a purpose of PA Semi, the semiconductor manufacturer which Apple acquired in April 2008, stays unclear. Stokes speculates which the PAPA Semi group may have helped optimize a A4 to extend battery holdup for the iPad, that Apple claims will final 10 hours with active use as well as asingle month upon standby.