Apple's iPad A4 Processor too is based on ARM Architechture

iPad has sold a million pieces in just under a month. Besides the Apple mystique, there has to be something great about the device. It is a form of personal computer, eminently suitable for media consumption and reading books. The face is all display there is no separate hanging wires to accommodate a keyboard or a mouse. The display itself is touch screen based and work with users' gestures. If you need it badly a virtual keyboard can be shown on the display for you.

All this powered by a processor named A4. With Apple acquiring the company that designed the A4, it is now Apple proprietary chip. So what does this processor contain!Young Choi of UBM TerchInsights did some analysis and first hand checking. Following data is from his publication. The details are very interesting! I'll strongly suggest you read the original article too. This here post will give you the highlights only.

The processor is a ARM Cortex A8 processor, operates at 1 GHz and is capable of producing 1.94 Dhrystone MIPS. It has a 64 KB L1 and 640 KB L2 cache.