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Rumour : “iPad 2″ to be Dual Core?

“Apple is on track to refresh the iPad by March and iPhone by late summer. A key component upgrade across these platforms will be a dual-core processor featuring a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores,” according to a research note released on Thursday by Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw.

I would be very surprised, albeit pleasantly so, if the iPad 2 we are all expecting to ship very early in 2011 sports a dual core ARM based processor.

Whilst Ashok’s logic is sound when he argues that the iPhone 5 and future iPads will need to go this way, it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to predict that!

It is certain that we will see a dual core iPhone 5 later in 2011. Which will then likely be relatively quickly followed by yet another update to the iPad. This third update to the iPad will be over and above the “bump” early in 2011, which we already expect will sport at least one camera and more RAM in a “lighter and thinner” case.