Apple Uses Intel's Nehalem Die Shot in A5 CPU Slide
Intel influenced Apple on the A5... sorta.
At the Apple event with the big iPhone 4S reveal, the company took the time to highlight again its A5 processor – the same processor that's been running in the iPad 2 since earlier this year. The leap from the Apple A4 in the iPhone 4 to the A5 is fairly significant, as it moves up an ARM generation as well as adds a second core.
Graphically, the A5 is exceptionally strong compared to the previous Apple generation, and is besting today's strongest competition. Apple has a lot to be proud of for its package-on-package system-on-chip design choices.
At the mention of the A5's dual-core capability the official promo video (above), Apple used a fairly attractive-looking die shot. Our friend Anand of AnandTech also noticed the die shot and tweeted about the striking similarities between Apple's image of its A5 and Intel's 45nm Nehalem CPU.
We're sure that Apple wasn't trying to mislead anyone into thinking that its A5 chip is an equivalent to Intel's Nehalem design. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and liberally borrowing from Intel's excellent die shots is nothing but a compliment… and likely the product of some uninspired Photoshopping.



So answer me this then. Why are they suing Samsung and trying to prevent them from launching products that resemble their own??
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So answer me this then. Why are they suing Samsung and trying to prevent them from launching products that resemble their own??
Sorry if I got the perspective wrong, I'm not very good with Gimp.
Mess with the hue a little, reduce saturation, etc., and I'm pretty sure it's the same thing. And yeah, poor, "poor" Samsung...
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Yea Anand has some serious nerd cred. The guy is nothing short of amazing with the information his site provides.
Apple uses a dieshot of a nehalem CPU to makes an illustration about a CPU in one slide of a presentation...
Clearly those are very different things, grow up people, get off the hate train, and get on the common sense train
here come my down votes
Yeah and Apple Photoshopping pics of Samsung products to resemble Apple products for court was an "accident" too . . .
Your train just derailed fool.
why're you here?
Nice :-D I had a good laugh.
The iPad was a merge of technology from "1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey", "Knight-Ridder" tablet newspaper from 1994, concept/prototypes from Star Trek, Microsoft tablet PC. It was hardly original.
The hardware just finally caught up to make it an affordable reality. LCD replacing CRT made a huge impact on the price of screens. India has a ~$49 tablet.
but samsung selling custom UI's that are a clear ripoff of iOS is ok? double standards much?
Same reason you are.
1. the samsung photos were photoshopped
2. the presentation was about the design of the A5. The die shot was of an A5, which is clearly the same as the nehalem die. this wasnt an example of a cpu, it was the actual cpu, and is one of the reasons most of us here hate apple. They sue everyone for "stealing ideas", and then they do this and claim its apple designed.
Yes, it would have been better for them to get a photo of the A5 dieshot. They didn't, it got noticed, and now they've stolen something else...a photo of an Intel CPU. Tsk tsk, but kind of trivial. We know Apple's lawyers would be at the ready if someone else did this to them. Who knows if they'd actually be unleashed.
Once again, Apple seems to have done something to earn further hatred from those that really need no reason to hate them. Apple is indeed sue-happy and that's annoying, but it seems to be the new industry fad. It'd be funny if Intel tried to sue them for using their photo during an A5 slideshow. ...but I suspect Intel doesn't have time to be bothered with such. Bravo for Intel.