Well, the Cortex A8 in the iPhone GS is rated at 833Mhz and being run at a measly 600Mhz for power saving reasons. Maybe heat issues as well. Unless a chip chews less power than a 600Mhz A8, there is no real reason to use th 1Ghz chip, is there ?.

Also, the secret PA Semi's iteration of their Cortex variant of PPC variant might make a play in the much awaited iTablet. This would then be a "beta" market test for that CPU before the future iPhone gets it (downthrottled in speed, of course!). Does make sense from a deployment view point as tested CPUs from iMac goes into MBP in lock-step before...we shall see.

In CNET's article iphone is mentioned five times, while in yours two times smaller it's found on six places. What does that prove ?

Apple won't be "making" their own chips in the sense of having their own fab.

They will do design work based on the ARM, and farm out the manufacture. Samsung seems to be a good guess as to who Apple might choose because of their relationship.

But Apple's designs must be based on an ARM to begin with. Which design are they using as a base?

Might they collaborate with Samsung on certain aspects? It's certainly possible. Could some of Samsung's design find its way into an Apple chip? Could be.

apple... its apple.

I normaly disagree with nick in apple related "posts", but today ... i disagree again xD

but in a diferent way...

i bet that apple will keep the same CPU (SoC really) in the next iphone, changing maybe the looks or something minor (or not that minor, if they make it 4g), and, only the 5th gen iphone, will get a new SoC, that will include something like Cortex A9 or newer, not this.