Apple’s Job posting hints new specs for iPhone

MacRumors spotted a job posting for Apple iPhone development team:

“The successful candidate will have excellent understanding and knowledge of processor architecture, specifically ARM and its vector unit NEON. Additional Intel SSE or PowerPC AltiVec is also very helpful. Being able to use processor micro-architecture to write and deliver fast routines is an essential attribute.”

For non techies: the requirements suggest that the next gen iPhone will use an ARMv7 Cortex processor rather than the ARMv6 processor as found in the current iPhone 3G and iPod touch, as NEON is the extended multimedia acceleration instruction set associated with the newer, faster CPU. The above information is in line with the leaked specs we published earlier about video recording & editing capability. [Via SlashGear]

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