With the news of the iPhone 4 finally coming to Verizon, most people are still deciding whether they’re going to make a carrier switch, and now talk has already turned to the iPhone 5. The fifth-gen smartphone from Apple has expectations of being released midway through this year. Qualcomm has been chosen by Apple for their baseband chips, while Kinsus will be supplying not only the high-pass substrate but a new A8 application processor says Apple Daily.

As of now, its difficult to tell exactly what this processor will mean. Even though ARM is responsible for the Cortext A8 platform of cores, it could very well be an internal Apple name on the dual-core version of the existing Apple A4 chipset the currently powers the iPhone 4 and iPad,  with the potential of two A4 cores being paired up. Its reported that Kinsus will be shipping out the components to Apple later in the quarter which would be ahead of the retail launch of the fifth-gen iPhone in the second half of the year. Kinsus is keeping quiet about everything, declining to comment of the rumors. Tell us what you think about Apple’s choices for manufacturers of the components. Who would be your first pick to manufacture the processors?

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[Source: Digitimes]

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