At the recent IFA show, Huawei launched the Kirin 980 chip. The chip is full of watch, it is the first mobile phone chip using 7nm process technology, and integrated 6.9 billion transistors on the fingernail-sized chip, only Can be described by 'performance bursting', and caused the infinite imagination of netizens.
At the Apple Autumn New Product Launch Conference held this morning, Apple released new products such as iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, and iPhone XR. Obviously, the appearance of the three new iPhones is not very big, just some adjustments in color matching. The overall is still the layout of the bangs design + narrow chin and rear vertical double shot.
Therefore, everyone has turned their attention to the chip inside the fuselage. Apple's mobile phone chip has always been on the performance list, has been Qualcomm, MediaTek and other mobile phone manufacturers behind. Every time Apple releases a new chip will redefine the performance of the phone In addition to the performance aspects of the latest A12 bionic chip that came with the new iPhone, what are the advantages? Let's take a look.
At the press conference, Apple Senior Vice President Phill Schiller introduced the A12 Bionic chip. It is understood that the A12 biochip is the same as the Huawei Kirin 980, using TSMC 7nm FinFET process technology, with 69 Billion collective management, its chip CPU, GPU and neural engine have a great improvement in performance compared to the A11 chip.
In the CPU part, the A12 bionic chip adopts a 6-core design, in which two performance cores undertake high-intensity computing tasks, while the four energy-efficiency cores handle daily tasks. The main thing is that the two performance cores are faster than the previous generation. %, power consumption is reduced by 40%, and power consumption of four energy-efficient small cores can be reduced by up to 50%.
In the GPU part, this year's A12 bionic chip used Apple's self-developed 4-core GPU for the first time. Its performance is about 50% higher than that of the previous generation A11 bionic chip, and supports multi-layer rendering and lossless compression. Compared to the CPU's routine 4. The increase in GPU is a big leap.
Nowadays, AI artificial intelligence plays more and more roles in our lives. After testing the water on A11, Apple started to exert force on the A12 biochip. The A12 bionic chip's neuroengine part is obviously improved, from A11. The dual-core design has been upgraded to the 8-core design (Neural Engine). Computational power has also been upgraded from A11 to 60 million operations per second to 5 trillion operations per second.
At the same time, Apple also opened the neural network engine to CoreML, allowing the A12 bionic chip to have powerful computing power while controlling the energy consumption to one-tenth of the previous one. Thanks to the Neutral Engine blessing, the A12 The chip has a unique advantage in learning, making great progress in Face ID, Siri, photography, games and so on.
In general, with the diversification of user needs, performance is no longer the only criterion. Apple knows this truth, so on the A12 biochip, Apple concentrates on the Neural Engine, making it more than just a 'Powerful performance' mobile phone chip.
