Apple fanatics seem to hold out continual hopes for the television solution vaguely outlined by late CEO Steve Jobs in one of his last interviews with biographer Walter Isaacson. After all, anyone who has had channel-changing frustration understandably craves a day in the future when picking a favorite television show will be as easy as opening an app or playing a song on iTunes. 

But the notoriously secretive company won't tell us when it will solve television problems forever. But while the public has had its eyes fixed on this mythical tool, engineers from Apple have quietly been working hard to make their existing Apple TV set-top box even better than ever. 

Earlier this year, documents from the FCC revealed an update to the Apple TV that we all know and love. This confused many of the journalists and analysts who make their careers out of reading and interpreting Apple-related papers, scouring them for clues about what may be in the works inside the firm. After all, there was no major keynote, no event - not even a press release. 

Now one of those sources, MacRumors, has finally made a break in the case. After looking into it, the publication reported that the update was intentionally invisible to users, with individuals from within the company opting to change the processor chip but not update the features that are available to the public. 

The update replaced a previous A5 chip with a newer, much smaller one that measures just 6 mm by 6 mm. Though it's unclear so far why the change was made, a smaller chip is typically produced in order to make room for new hardware inside of a device. 

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