The future is en route to an Apple product near you. And it’ll use a 7 nanometer manufacturing process when it gets here. Chip producer TSMC is ramping up production of its next-gen “A12” processor, which uses 7nm process lines for the chips destined to power the 2018 iPhone models. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) […]
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This is pretty neat. The pros have gotten their hands on Apple’s A10X Fusion processor that shipped with the new iPad Pro and have confirmed that this is the first chip in a device using TMSC’s FinFET 10nm chip fabrication process. The breakdown, published by Tech Insights, discovered a 96.4 square millimeter die size as […]
Via the combined forces of Intel and Micron, NAND flash memory could get even faster. This, in turn, could make the memory in your iOS devices even faster and allow for more storage space. The two companies are apparently working on a 3D NAND flash technologies wherein 3D NAND is stacked in 32 vertical layers. […]
There may be more to Apple’s A8X processor than was originally thought. Per 9to5Mac, further analysis of the processor by AnandTech showed that initial guesses as to the GPU specification of the Apple A8X chip, exclusively available in the iPad Air 2, were wrong. In fact, the chip uses a unique 8 cluster design. AnandTech […]
Maybe it’s a good thing that my mid-2011 MacBook Pro was stolen on Friday. Per AppleInsider, Apple is rumored to be launching both new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks on Tuesday. The new models are said to feature faster CPUs and a meaty 16 GB of RAM. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina […]