Even before Apple Inc's newly launched iPhones powered by the latest A9 chip -- begin shipping (in the US) rumors about its 'next' flagship chipset have begun circulating. And by the looks of it, Apple's next chip touted as A10 is going to step it up big time in comparison to its current-gen version powering the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus.
Apple is one of the few companies that don't believe that more cores necessarily mean better read faster phones. It's managed to cram in enough power in its iPhones with just two-cores than most phones that come beefed up with octa and haxa-cores in the market. Of course, a major part of this is attributed to how well Apple is known to optimize hardware and software in just the right proportion making its iPhones stand out in terms of buttery smooth performance.
But, if you happen to follow Apple in the last couple of years, you'd know that things are changing. Slowly and steadily the Cupertino major is embracing change -- for better or worse -- and making its iPhones 'bigger' and it's not just about the size.
According to a new report , Apple's upcoming flagship chip for the year 2016 will come with 6 cores making it the company's first ever hexa-core processor. This is a huge bump, considering current and previous gen iPhones come with dual core processors. If this were to be true, we could very well see the next batch of iPhones iPhone 7/iPhone 7 Plus or whatever Apple calls them being a huge upgrade over the current iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.
According to a new report , Apple's upcoming flagship chip for the year 2016 will come with 6 cores making it the company's first ever hexa-core processor. This is a huge bump, considering current and previous gen iPhones come with dual core processors. If this were to be true, we could very well see the next batch of iPhones iPhone 7/iPhone 7 Plus or whatever Apple calls them being a huge upgrade over the current iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.
The same report suggests that TSMC, Samsung, even Intel could make Apple's new A10 chip which will reportedly be manufactured on a 14nm or 10nm process. The alleged A10 chip is further expected to focus on improving multi-threading.
Apple claims its new A9 processor is 70% faster and has a 90% faster GPU as compared to the previous generation A8 chip found on the iPhone 6. Only recently, it came into light that the new iPhone 6S is rocking a 1.8GHz dual-core Apple A9 processor with 2GB RAM. The iPhone 6 was powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core A8 chip.
Should rumours about the new A10 chip come true, the next batch of iPhones would definitely set new benchmarks in the smartphone market. As if Apple was already not doing enough.
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