Apple A5

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! class="ios-lab" | Designer
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Introduced
| class="ios-val" | March 2011 (iPad 2); [[iPhone 4s]] October 2011
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! class="ios-lab" | Process
| class="ios-val" | 45 nm, later 32 nm (Samsung)
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! class="ios-lab" | CPU
| class="ios-val" | Dual-core Cortex-A9, ~1 GHz
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! class="ios-lab" | GPU
| class="ios-val" | PowerVR SGX543MP2
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! class="ios-lab" | Devices
| class="ios-val" | iPad 2 · [[iPhone 4s]] · iPad mini · iPod touch (5th) · Apple TV (3rd)
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! class="ios-lab" | Predecessor
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple A4]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Successor
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple A6]]
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The Apple A5 is Apple's second system-on-chip, introduced with the iPad 2 in March 2011 and the [[iPhone 4s]] that fall — the chip that brought the iPhone dual-core CPU and the graphics headroom (a claimed 7×) behind Siri-era features and the 4s's 1080p video.

= Legacy =

The A5 became Apple's longest-serving chip: die-shrunk to 32 nm, it powered iPad minis, iPod touches, and Apple TVs sold into the mid-2010s, making it the volume workhorse of the early ecosystem — and, less happily, the 512 MB-era hardware whose late-life iOS updates taught Apple its support-window lessons.

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