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TSMC 7nm info

I think by now it's clear, the node name each foundry uses is decided by marketing not engineering. With that said, what's the performance characteristics and implications. Consider this, the actual processor cores take very little space on the SoC even using 16FFC. The elephant in the room...
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- Post #47
- Oct 12, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

Anyone making predictions on sales numbers is just guessing. All we know is that even though Apple did not have to do any major retooling, the demand was so high that their was a backlog and there still seems to be a backlog on certain models. If you want to predict, just remember that iPhone...
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- Post #331
- Oct 5, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[TechTastic] A10X Geekbench 4 Score

Hey you know what, Apple's processors are using low voltage designs and showing great performance. It really has you wonder, if they use higher power designs what they can build. The question: is the A10X a higher clocked A10 and/or on the 10nm node which TSMC already has in production. The...
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- Post #4
- Oct 5, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

Did you wormhole into bizarro world? Check Android profit ledgers and make sure... iPhone 7 has been a huge hit everywhere not to mention us geeks who are focusing on the innovation inside
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- Post #326
- Oct 4, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

Most of the Android phones sold do not contain high-end ARM processors. This is a problem for Qualcomm and Samsung. Look at the Apple R&D expenditure posted earlier. Each new process node has been getting more and more expensive leaving Apple in the best position to be the volume first...
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- Post #319
- Oct 3, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

The 10FF node is now in production at TSMC, I don't see Apple waiting a whole year before using it. The iPad Pro models makes sense since they can get another 20% speed boost over the A10. There is a 2.1 reduction in size from 16FF+, So they can double the cores of both the CPU and GPU or some...
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- Post #296
- Sep 29, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Geekbench 4 Score

That's some scary stuff, maybe Apple developed a time machine and is bringing back technology from the future ;)
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- Post #124
- Sep 22, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Geekbench 4 Score

I understand that "the galaxy profit" is exploding these days, one can even say they're on fire
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- Post #123
- Sep 22, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

With InFO, the wafer package can mix such that the GPU can be 16nm, the various cores 10nm, etc. Now we will need to wait for the X-Rays to ascertain which part is at which scaling. Unless Apple tells us outright. Typically SRAM is the first to shrink. Look at the SoC package as taking over...
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- Post #223
- Sep 16, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

The A10 using TSMC's Integrated Fan-Out (InFO) has bigger implications than thinner packaging, it also indicates much faster memory access and bandwidth while a significantly lower power usage, This is a perfect fit with the new efficiency cores and significantly improves the GPU performance...
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- Post #217
- Sep 16, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

It's not a question of trivial or not, it's an issue of energy economy. If a process is memory bound, it doesn't matter how fast a processor is, memory communications speed is the limiting factor. So a memory bound thread will run just as fast (reasonably) on the efficiency cores as they would...
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- Post #210
- Sep 14, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

I remember reading an article minimizing the performance increase of the iPhone 7 since it was only 40% faster than the A9. LOL. The reality is that Apple has intentionally downplayed what a huge a performance leap they made. I suspect to avoid comparisons with their Pro and computer models...
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- Post #203
- Sep 14, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Geekbench 4 Score

I don't understand why Intel even comes up as a competitor, since it doesn't even compete in this space. It lost it. If the A10 Fusion is being compared to Intel processors on larger form factors that's not good for Intel in any way.
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- Post #119
- Sep 13, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

Qualcomm is already just mid-tier. What we have today is overpriced mid-tier phones competing with iPhone flagships. Just look to the China android phones that are every bit as good as the android phones we get in the west but they sell for so much less. The differentiator with the high end...
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- Post #172
- Sep 13, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A10 Fusion is ** Quad-core big.LITTLE **

It's hard to go back to a 5S size display once you're on a plus model and now I'm hoping Apple goes even bigger. Maybe if they go full edge to edge and get rid of the top and bottom margins when they put home button behind the display.
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- Post #152
- Sep 12, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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TSMC 7nm info

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

[TechTastic] A10X Geekbench 4 Score

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Geekbench 4 Score

Apple A10 Geekbench 4 Score

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Geekbench 4 Score

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE

Apple A10 Fusion is Quad-core big.LITTLE