Detailed specifications of the iPhone processor are exposed

by yinyin on 2007-07-02 11:56:59

Jailbreak enthusiasts have successfully unearthed more detailed processor information from the iPhone's firmware, as follows:

1. Model: ARM1176JZF, supporting TrustZone technology (similar to iMac's hardware copyright protection system, extremely difficult to crack)

2. Clock speed: Two frequency switches, high frequency 620MHz, low power consumption 320MHz

3. Supports ARM Intelligent Energy Manager smart energy-saving system, which is claimed to reduce power consumption by 25%-50%

4. 16K/16K cache

5. Supports vector floating-point coprocessing

6. ARM Jazelle support, embedded Java support

7. SIMD high-performance integer operation (8 pipelines, 675 Dhrystone, 2.1 MIPS)

8. Power consumption 0.45mW/MHz