Misleading title - this is just Darwin. There doesn't appear to be anything iOS specific in this announcement.
What would you consider the core? Is it UIKit? Cocoa? libc? SpringBoard (the homescreen application)?
(Edited: s/Darwin/XNU/; thanks shibby!)
However, this is impressive none the less.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
The title would have been equally correct if it said OS X, which tells you that the title is essentially meaningless.