With the quick development of smartphone, among them the iPhone, ARM have seen its market growing at a record pace, pushing them to develop products with higher performance levels and new features. The iPad is also powered by a ARM-architecture and will contribute to the success of this architecture.
According to different sources, it seems quite certain today, that the Apple A4 is a SoC, including a Cortex A9 CPU featuring several cores and a GPU Mali from the same company. As with other computer devices, this processor will evolve with the different models/generations of iPad, but also the iPhone and iPod Touch. ARM just unveiled the successor of the Cortex A
