iPad’s A4 Chip Promises Great Performance & Longer Battery Life [PA Semi Not the Creators of the A4; Working on the iPhone 3G Chip Instead?]

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If there’s one thing that’s definitely to like about the iPad, besides the contract-free data plans, is the new A4 chip that will make everything possible on the iPad. The chip, supposedly to have been created by Apple’s newly acquired PA Semi, will make us dream about the iPhone 4G’s future performance.

While the iPad is definitely something we’d like to play with, we won’t necessarily buy it. On the other hand the iPhone 4G will be the next must-have handset. Should it bring to the crowds most of the features we talked about earlier, then the crowds, yours truly included, will happily replace current iPhones with the next gen model, no matter how tall it is.

What do we want the most in the next iPhone? Better processor, longer battery life, multitasking support. Sure we can use a new screen, an improved camera and a front-facing cam, but without the three particular features I mentioned initially the iPhone 4G won’t be a hit.

Where does A4 come in? Well A4 is a chip that promises great performance without requiring all that battery juice. That means longer battery life (10 hours of continuous usage; one month stand-by). That must mean multitasking too, provided that iPhone OS 4.0 supports it. So who is making the A4 chp really? People say it’s PA Semi, but then again other people will come and tell you that it’s not PA Semi and that the A4 has been developed in-house by Apple.

Has PA Semi developed the A4? Is it that important who made the damned thing as long it will work as adevertised? Apple purchased PA Semi a while ago and if the later did not work on the iPad then what have they been doing all this time? Should we assume that PA Semi is working hard on the next-gen chips ready to be incorporated in the iPhone 4G? Whether the A4 was or wasn’t PA Semi’s creation we’ll go ahead and assume that the next-gen iPhone is going to get the awesome chip we crave from PA Semi. We’re really looking forward to hear Apple deny everything but they won’t do anything like that, would they?

In other news Windows Mobile 7 is rumored not to sport multitasking. Deja-vu anyone?. Will Microsoft really risk to go head to head against Apple with an OS that doesn’t support multitasking? Not that we have confirmed multitasking support coming from iPhone OS 4.0 yet, have we?