Linked List: September 16, 2012

Sunday, 16 September 2012

AnandTech: The iPhone 5’s A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead ★

Great find from the inimitable Anand Lal Shimpi:

The A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design. The CPU core(s) aren’t based on a vanilla A9 or A15 design from ARM IP, but instead are something of Apple’s own creation.

It’s only twice as fast as last year’s A5.

I Agree With Rick Santorum ★

Rosie Gray, BuzzFeed:

Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum attacked the media and “smart people” for not being on the side of conservatives in a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday.

“We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,” Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. “We will never have the elite, smart people on our side.”

Marissa Mayer Institutes Smartphone Program for Employees ★

Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider:

Through the program, Yahoo employees will have a choice of phones: iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920. Yahoo is also going to pay its employees data and phone bills. Yahoo is also going to discontinue IT support for Blackberry phones.

I’d be curious to see the breakdown of which phones employees choose. I have a guess which one Mayer will use.