In the image above we have your presence a motherboard (logic board) of the iPad 3 tablet and in the central right part you can see an A5X chip that would contain the processor, graphics card and other elements of the device. Normally, Apple should release the A6 chip together with the new tablet, but the image above shows the A5X chip for the iPad 3, but we are talking about a motherboard built in November of last year. Because we are talking about a prototype of the iPad tablet, the name on the chip would be a special one for this kind of device and it would not make sense that Apple would name the chip in the iPad 3 as A5X.
Apple is expected to introduce an upgraded processor and graphics package for the iPad 3, with the assumption being that it would be called the A6 after the A4 initially appeared in the original iPad and iPhone 4 and was succeeded by the A5 in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. But if this photo is to be believed, that assumption appears to have been incorrect, with Apple instead having branded the upgraded package with the A5X name.
So far we know that the new A6 chip will have a processor and a graphics card faster than those in the iPad 2 tablet, but it is not known 100% for sure if the processor will even be quad-core. It is clear that the new tablet will come with better hardware, but most of the information presented so far does not indicate with 100% certainty what exactly it will contain, the exception is the image of the new screen, which appears to be Retina.
