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| General information | |
|---|---|
| Launched | March 16, 2012 |
| Discontinued | October 23, 2012 |
| Designed by | Apple Inc. |
| Common manufacturer | |
| Product code | S5L8945X[1] |
| Performance | |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 1 GHz |
| Cache | |
| L1 cache | 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data[2] |
| L2 cache | 1 MB[2] |
| Architecture and classification | |
| Application | Mobile |
| Technology node | 45 nm[3][4] |
| Microarchitecture | ARM Cortex-A9 |
| Instruction set | ARMv7 |
| Physical specifications | |
| Cores |
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| GPU | PowerVR SGX543MP4 (quad-core)[5] |
| Products, models, variants | |
| Variant | |
| History | |
| Successor | Apple A6X |
The Apple A5X is a 32-bit system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., part of the Apple silicon series, and manufactured by Samsung. It was introduced with and only used in the third-generation iPad, on March 7, 2012. The A5X is a high-performance variant of the Apple A5. Apple claimed the quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 graphics processing unit (GPU) in the A5X is two times faster than the GPU in the A5, as the A5X GPU contains two more cores than the dual-core version GPU in the A5.[6]
The last operating system update Apple provided for a mobile device containing an A5X (third-generation iPad cellular models) was iOS 9.3.6, which was released on July 22, 2019 as it was discontinued with the release of iOS 10 in 2016.
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