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Rumors swirled ahead of the iPhone 5s’ launch that the silicon inside it would come from a source other than Samsung. Despite signing a deal with TSMC to manufacture future SoC’s, Chipworks has confirmed that the A7 powering the new flagship iPhone comes from a familiar place: Samsung’s fabrication facilities. Yet, while Apple couldn’t cut the tie that binds it to its greatest rival for the main brain of the phone, it did manage to source the secondary M7 chip from NXP. Again, Chipworks discovered the M7’s origin, and while we’d love to send you straight there for the nitty gritty now, it appears the site is currently down — so, iFixit’s secondary reporting of Chipworks‘ work will have to do… for now.

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Via: iFixit (1), (2)

Source: Chipworks

iOS 7 adoption is already reaching at least 35 percent of iPhone owners, and that’s just after two days. Themakeover has been a big one, with Apple promising 200 new features.

The font is different. The colors are brighter. The icons are childish. And the whole system seems to bounce and bobble against the movement of your hand.

It’s a brand new world.

Because Darrell’s obsessed with Apple, and because Apple had a big week, we discuss iOS 7 and very little else on this episode of the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast featuring John Biggs, Matt Burns, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington, and Eliza Brooke.

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When we got our hands on the iPhone 5C, our very first thought was that it feels like the iPhone 5 permanently ensconced in a case. That was also our next four or five thoughts. Because basically, that’s all the iPhone 5C is.

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Many scoffed at the notion of a gold iPhone, but it seems that metallic champagne is the color everyone’s trying to buy. While online orders are being pushed back to next month, sources have told Engadget directly that some of Apple’s flagship stores only received “tens” of gold iPhones, which sold out the moment doors opened. In a statement to AllThingsD, the company said that demand for the new hardware has been “incredible,” and that supplies are already limited. On the upside, Cupertino is said to have already increased orders for Auric Goldfinger’s favorite iPhone by up to a third, but until those devices make it out of the factory, it’s probably easier to knock off Fort Knox than to get a gold iPhone.

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Source: WSJ Digits

Starting at 8AM local time here in the United States (that’s local whatever time zone you’re in), the iPhone 5s will be going on sale – and at midnight (this morning) the iPhone 5s in gold was the first to start flying off digital shelves. It’s become readily apparent not only online, where at Apple’s […]