Apple has been pretty keen to talk up the benefits of their Apple A4 1GHz core, as buried inside the iPad and the new iPhone 4, but they’ve also been quite coy about sharing its technical origins. Now analysts UBM TechInsights reckon they’ve figured it out on their own, and interestingly enough they’re saying the 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 application processor is exactly the same as what’s found in the Samsung Wave S8500.
The Wave’s processor is the S5PC110A01, and it seems it’s the handiwork of Samsung and Intrinsity; Apple of course bought Intrinsity back in April. Of course, it’s not just what’s powering your device but how the software uses it, so beyond being frugal and capable using the same core doesn’t really draw any great parallels between the two, but with Samsung tipped to launch three different tablets this year – including the 7-inch Galaxy Tab – we’ll be interested to see if they can leverage the Cortex A8 in the same way that Apple have obviously managed to.