Apple’s A4 chip

I have no clue about computer chip design and manufacturing. So I Trolled venture beat's reade with a challenge: Explain to me how Apple’s switch from third-party chip manufacturers to its own in-house design for the A4 chip that powers the new iPad tablet computer makes the i pad better, either for Apple or for i pad

Former Apple employee Prabhakar Kotla sent me not one snappy answer, but ten of them.

“Instead of looking at A4 in a linear way you must think in a multi dimensional way.

* A4 consumes less power than most of the chips (you can look up for a video comparing ARM cortex and Intel) for processing speeds.