Purported A8 Chip Reveals iPhone 6 Will Have 1GB of RAM

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Posted August 29, 2014 at 7:18pm by iClarified

Today photos of the iPhone 6 logic board featuring an A8 processor surfaced online. Looking closer at the chip it can be determined that Apple's next generation smartphone will likely have 1GB of RAM.

MacRumors forum member commander.data spotted a part number on the A8 revealsing that the package-on-package contains Hynix RAM.

Based on Hynix's part number format, the character in the eighth position reveals the amount of RAM in the package, with an "8" denoting 8 Gb (1 GB) and a "B" denoting 16 Gb (2 GB). While it is a bit difficult to read the part number clearly given the distance and angle in the photo, our staff and several posters in our forum agree that the character very much appears to be an "8", indicating 1 GB of RAM.

Check out the photo below for a close up look at the part number. If you haven't already seen the leaked logic board photos click here. Feld & Volk has also managed to combine leaked parts to assemble an iPhone 6 that powers on. Watch that video here.

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Purported A8 Chip Reveals iPhone 6 Will Have 1GB of RAM

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MUKAI - August 30, 2014 at 5:26am

My ass itches

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odedoo1 - August 29, 2014 at 11:46pm

1GB of RAM exactly what my 5S got time to cross it of the Christmas list and wait for the 6S for some reason Apple keeps all the good stuff for the Ss pretty much fooling everybody to buy twice which I must admit a good business plan because everybody falls for it.

gamerscul9870 - August 30, 2014 at 1:34pm

What do you mean fool? No one can predict what newer iPhones have if all you see is just the newer shell and beyond that, rumors guess if it will have what it may come with or not, so it's a gamble to buy the 6. Compared to ram, Apple may still have more power in the chips no matter how high the ram is.

Andy - August 29, 2014 at 8:22pm

Not buying it. It will be bad. Going to android. Xperia z3 looking good.

areilly111 - August 29, 2014 at 8:08pm

Not like it will need more then 512MB

odedoo1 - August 29, 2014 at 11:47pm

you don't know what you are talking about.

areilly111 - August 29, 2014 at 11:52pm

Please explain to me how you think iOS manages it's resources. it's not all about how much ram it has or how much processing power it has. It's about how it utilizes it and manages it.