Limited RAM in Apple's A5 chip in iPad 2, iPhone 4S motivated by battery life concerns
Observers puzzled by the relatively scarce 512MB of RAM built into Apple's A5 processor used in this year's iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have received an explanation of sorts from an unlikely source: Microsoft.
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