Author: James Vincent
Apple has unveiled its latest chip for the new batch of iPhones: the A12 Bionic. The company says it’s the industry’s first ever 7nm chip and Phil Schiller, on stage in Cupertino, introduced it as the “the smartest, most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.”
He’s probably right. It has a six-core CPU (with two “performance” cores and four “efficiency” cores), a four-core GPU (which is up to 50 percent faster than the A11’s), and an updated Neural Engine, a special part of the chip designed to handle AI tasks.
While last year’s chip had a two-core Neural Engine, the A12 Bionic bumps that up to eight cores. And while the old Neural Engine could crunch through 600 billion operations per second, the new version can handle 5 trillion...
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Apple has unveiled its latest chip for the new batch of iPhones: the A12 Bionic. The company says it’s the industry’s first ever 7nm chip and Phil Schiller, on stage in Cupertino, introduced it as the “the smartest, most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.”
He’s probably right. It has a six-core CPU (with two “performance” cores and four “efficiency” cores), a four-core GPU (which is up to 50 percent faster than the A11’s), and an updated Neural Engine, a special part of the chip designed to handle AI tasks.
While last year’s chip had a two-core Neural Engine, the A12 Bionic bumps that up to eight cores. And while the old Neural Engine could crunch through 600 billion operations per second, the new version can handle 5 trillion...
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