Apple to ship iPhone 5 with A5 dual-core processor
The iPhone 5 is set to be powered by the same A5 dual-core processor as the iPad 2, according to developers who have looked into the inner workings of the iOS 4.3 firmware update The iOS 4.3 release code contains a kernel for a device named N94AP, which is widely tipped by developers to be the codename for the iPhone 5.
A developer known as @chronic found that the part number for the A5 processor is S5L8940. A screenshot posted on Apple site iClarified shows that the iPhone 5 kernelcache.release file contains references to this same part, confirming that the dual-core processor will appear in the smartphone.
The original iPad and iPhone 4 contained the same A4 chip, lending further support to the theory. If the iPhone 5 does contain the A5 processor, it will have a significant performance boost, as Apple claims that the chip delivers twice the CPU performance and nine times the graphics performance of the original iPad.
