I don't think Apple have ever commented on their chip architecture, at least at this sort of level. It's going to be verified by somebody throwing the chip under an electron microscope, rather than Apple releasing documentation.
>This is one of the things that, if true, would come from official apple channels rather than un-sourced rumors
Err, Apple has a policy of not officially talking about even the amount of RAM, so we need to rely on third parties for this info.
It almost seem you want Anand to be wrong, you have some personal beef with him?
The Verge isn't too bad either if you ignore the comments section, but everything else is just like you said, speculation/rumor sites that value page hits over actually writing something informative.
At this rate we're going to hear in two days that actually Apple licensed Krait from Qualcomm, and in a week that what really happened was a switch to Medfield.