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iPhone 5 A6 chip to dynamically up-clock up to 1.3GHz (and downclock too)?

Interesting video from our friends at TLDToday: If this is not just a Geekbench app glitch, it could indicate why that A6 processor is so 2X fast.

The A6 was clocked at 1.02GHz on Geekbench before the official launch—probably by one of the media reviewers.

[tweet https://twitter.com/nkapoor124/status/251082770074464256]

Update: It appears to downclock below 600MHz too:

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