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Dismissing Anand Lal Shimpi as one would dismiss a blogger is not right. He carries a lot of reputation and experience.

>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.

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In all fairness, on this particular issue his track record isn't too good :-) Within the last a week he has been strongly of the opinion that it's going to be an upclocked A9, then that it's an A15 mysteriously launching months ahead of schedule, and now that it's a previously unheard of Apple design.

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.

This is the first time he's claimed confirmation from people who are supposed to know.

And yet he was dead wrong about the new iPhone having Cortex A15 in the other post, that made everyone on the Internet think that Apple uses Cortex A15. So much for his reputation. I wonder what will remain of it if this proves wrong, too.

He speculated on the options Apple had for the iPhone 5 SoC, and speculated wrong. No big deal, it happens to every tech website or blog that tries to predict future products. Now he has some tangible evidence about the nature of the A6 core (the fact that XCode now has build profiles for ARMv7s + VFPv4) and supposedly got confirmation from someone in the know that the A6 is a custom design. Seems like a safe bet this is right to me.

It almost seem you want Anand to be wrong, you have some personal beef with him?

Just want to add that Anandtech has really stepped it up this year with great iPhone coverage. It's a nice contrast to countless other speculation/rumor articles with no valuable insight and "controversy = page hits!" articles that just fan the flames of the "Apple vs. Everyone Else" arguments that saturate tech blogs.

I totally agree. AnandTech is one of the very few remaining tech websites that are still really about the technology itself, instead of all the other aspects that ignite flamewars and hating everywhere else.

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.

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