One of the most significant new features of the iPad (aside from the extra camera) is the new A5 processor. Apple’s claiming twice the performance and up to nine times the graphics power. As usual, the company was a bit shy on the details of what the chip contains exactly but a report released today though, says that not only has Apple included the same 512 MB of memory in the iPad 2 as the iPhone 4, but also that it’s faster LPDDR2 RAM. During the announcement of the iPad 2, Apple gave only the smallest of ideas of what the device is packing. The company did refer to a dual-core 1GHz ARM processor and faster graphics chip. Apple habitually refrains from publishing specs on the iPad and iPhone internals, preferring to focus on performance claims (10 hours of battery life, twice as fast, etc). They  never said how much RAM is any of their devices: we only find out after it has been torn apart by the folks over at iFixIt. In a rumor stream leading up to Wednesday’s announcement, it was reported that the iPad 2 would get 512 MB of RAM, like the iPhone 4, and that the memory bus speed would be boosted to 1066 MHz instead of the 800 MHz of the A4. The report is apparently being bolstered by a tweet from Korean analyst Kakeun Lee in response to reports that the new tablet has the same amount of RAM as the first-generation iPad. Contradicting an Apple employee at a press demo in London who claimed the iPad 2 has only 256 MB of memory, Lee stated that the A5 has 512 MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM. The low power double data rate synchronous DRAM was used in the A4 to lower overall power consumption to deliver more power without sacificing battery life. The new and second generation, LPDDR2, runs the memory core and I/O at 1.2 V, a significant savings over the 1.8 V required by the A4?s LPDDR1 SDRAM. It also runs at 1066 MHz as opposed to the 800 MHz on the A4, again which lines up with info from earlier reports. We don’t know for sure and won’t until the guys over at iFixIt get their hands on an iPad 2 in a week’s time. However, it would be surprising if Apple didn’t stay ahead of the curve. With many smartphones and tablets getting Qualcomm’s second generation Snapdragon SoC with LPDDR2 Ram this year, Apple wouldn’t be able to hide behind unpublished specs for long. [Source: MacRumors] Authors:

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