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famousringo said:
superchunk said:

Apple bases their CPU tech on ARM and Cortex A9 is what its based on as was the last few Apple CPUs. "Swift" is just their code name.

Being ignorant is okay. Being ignorant and acting knowledgable is not. If you're going to understand hardware, you should start by reading Anandtech. This iPhone 5 review has 5 or so pages on the A6, precisely because it isn't an A9-based SoC. Start here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/4

Well, my mistake. Looks like is fully custom. I'll update this if/when there are true benchmarks comparing these units as I'm sure there will be.