New iPad?s A5X Processor Holds Few Surprises Despite Enormous Size

Initial teardowns of the new iPad whetted many a chip nerd's appetite when they revealed that the A5X chip inside was truly gigantic. At nearly 13x13mm, it is significantly larger than the A5, which was itself already kind of a hefty bugger.

Now some clear images (from Chipworks) have been taken of the die itself (some rather rough ones with initial "floorplans" showed up earlier over the weekend) and it's becoming more and more clear that the A5X is a stopgap measure: a last-generation product that's overcompensating, if you will, with a jumbo-sized GPU.

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