Alternative iphone 5S A7 processor Dismantling Quest

The Apple A7 processor is manufactured by Samsung, with a dual core and a 28nm process (HKMG), which has made significant progress in the 32nm process of Apple A6.

Thanks to Apple's excellent research and development capabilities, the current market in the smartphone chip universal to the four-core, or even eight nuclear situation, still leisurely bite on the dual-core chip efforts. But the upshot is that Apple, with its less core resources, has gained a four-core experience of manipulation, which has to be impressive. According to professional test results, the core frequency of the A7 processor is only 1.3GHz. However, compared to the actual speed of the iphone 5S, we are still deeply impressed.

In the A7 chip, Apple uses a quad-core PowerVR (sixth generation) G6430 graphics processor. The processor has a shine because it supports OpenGL 3.0. It also makes the iphone 5S no pressure to run 3D games. In addition, Apple has not increased the capacity of memory, is still 1GB, only in the previous LPDDR2 to the LPDDR3 generation.

In short, although Apple's A7 processor is still suppressed in terms of its core number and frequency, it still maintains a high standard of process technology and product levels, which is why they can do so by "lower surface values".