The teardown of the iPhone 5s has officially gotten microscopic. With the team at chipworks making it their mission to get down and dirty with the heartiest Apple chip on the market today, the iPhone 5s has joined the ranks of the devices that our current teardown culture has seen fit to take apart down […]
Recent rumors are suggesting that HTC is working on an updated model of the One smartphone. And just to clarify, we are not talking about the often rumored HTC One Max, but another variant of the HTC One. According to the details, HTC is working on a new model One with an octa-core processor and […]
We’ve already seen inside the iPhone 5S
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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
The Intel Developer Forum is coming to an end, meaning its execs get to go wild and show some of the oddball concepts under way at the tech giant. These include a processor so efficient it can pull all the energy it needs to run from a glass of red wine.
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More information on the Apple A7 processor and its M7 motion coprocessor has appeared this week along with a set of suggestions on what Apple is working on for the system next. This system exists right this minute inside the iPhone 5S, bringing with it a bit of “always-on” measuring of motion data. This data […]
One of the things that Apple announced at its iPhone event earlier this week was that its high-end iPhone 5S smartphone was using a 64-bit processor. Not to be outdone, Samsung has now confirmed that its smartphones in the future will also be running 64-bit processors. The promise was made by Samsung mobile business head […]
Samsung has been talking up its new octa-core processor for a while now. The little processor sounds really good on paper, but if you’re the sort who wants to see it in action before you pass judgment you’ll appreciate these videos. The Exynos 5 octa chip has been recorded on video performing some of its […]
Along with the announcement of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, Apple also took some time to discuss the new processor. This latest will be the Apple A7 chip and perhaps key — it will be the first 64-bit SoC to come available in a smartphone. This one will be found in the iPhone 5S […]
Apple has just laid claim to a world first: 64-bit processing inside a real, ready-for-sale smartphone. The new A7 processor will power the iPhone 5s with a “desktop-class architecture” consisting of over 1 billion transistors. That’s twice as many transistors as were squeezed into the A6 and, for the sake of context, it’s not a million miles away from the 1.4 billion transistors found in a current Intel Ivy Bridge desktop-class PC chip. In other words, while ARM’s own 64-bit mobile chip design, the Cortex-A57, is still being developed by chip- and phone-makers, Apple’s in-house team has pipped them all to the post.
Largely as a result of the extra transistors and 64-bit architecture, the A7 is claimed to be twice as fast as its predecessor, both in terms of CPU and graphics performance. Speaking of graphics, Apple also promises that its newly added support for the OpenGL ES 3.0 standard will enable “breakthroughs in performance” for visually intensive games such as Infinity Blade III. And it won’t just be games that benefit — iOS 7 will be 64-bit too, naturally, and Apple’s own built-in apps will be “re-engineered” to exploit this next-gen processing capability. (The A7 and iPhone 5s will also be backwards compatible with existing 32-bit apps.)
Finally, it’s interesting note that the iPhone 5s has a secondary processor, the Apple M7, which is tailored for processing motion and other sensory inputs and is presumably designed for unburdening the main chip and allowing the iPhone 5s to work as a fitness tracker and accomplish other sensory-based tasks without excessive battery drain.
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