Apple ad suggests iPhone will have Arm inside

Iria · Jan 12, 2007, 03:52 AM

Source: InfoWorld
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What processor will the iPhone use? That's one of the great unanswered questions left in the wake of Apple's launch of the iPhone this week, but a job ad on Apple's Web site may hint at the answer.

The open position is a networking engineer to work on the iPhone, and as the ad makes clear, Apple is looking for someone who knows the Mac OS and embedded platforms, and Arm processors in particular.

An Arm chip would be the logical component for a device like the iPhone. Arm is already the dominant provider of smartphone application processors because its chips are powerful enough to meet the computing needs of these products while at the same time requiring little power -- a critical component to keeping the phones running between charges.

pr0digal jenius · Jan 12, 2007, 08:46 AM

so it'll run between 2 and 300 MHz and have a battery life of about a week standby or 5 hours talk time then, judging from the chipset

Turn on wifi, bluetooth, or beam, and lop off 15% of your battery at least

Jan 12, 2007, 03:52 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Apple ad suggests iPhone will have Arm inside Source: InfoWorld __________ What processor will the iPhone use? That's one of the great unanswered questions left in the wake of Apple's launch of the iPhone this week, but a job ad on Apple's Web site may hint at the answer. The open position is a networking engineer to work on the iPhone, and as the ad makes clear, Apple is looking for someone who knows the Mac OS and embedded platforms, and Arm processors in particular. An Arm chip would be the logical component for a device like the iPhone. Arm is already the dominant provider of smartphone application processors because its chips are powerful enough to meet the computing needs of these products while at the same time requiring little power -- a critical component to keeping the phones running between charges.

Jan 12, 2007, 08:46 AM	#2
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	so it'll run between 2 and 300 MHz and have a battery life of about a week standby or 5 hours talk time then, judging from the chipset Turn on wifi, bluetooth, or beam, and lop off 15% of your battery at least