Engadget reported over the busy weekend that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has made public several iPad photos for Apple’s application for radiation emission requirements. The photos were apparently submitted in March but were kept private until after the product launch.
With the iPad they didn’t just bother to test out the radiation and maybe take a little peek for themselves under the covers, but instead disassembled the whole machine on camera. Unfortunately they took it upon themselves to cover over the specific chips, so we’ll have to wait for one of those pro bono teardowns to get the full lay of the land, but it’s still a unique look at the makeup of this thing.
Some parts of the images were covered, but as MacRumors points out, were merely layers in the PDF and have been removed to reveal the specifics of the device.
The main processor is of course Apple’s custom A4. The images also show us that Apple is utilizing Toshiba Flash memory (for storage) and the Broadcom BCM593 chip for Wi-Fi.
That brings us to some early benchmarks (courtesy of Craig Hockenberry). It appears that iPad is twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS (believe me it feels it) due to the A4. However, iPad uses the same PowerVR SGX graphics chips, and 256MB of RAM that the iPhone 3GS uses. So it appears that the bulk of performance boost comes solely from the A4 processor.
Images courtesy of the FCC.
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