Teardown of Apple’s A9X processor shows 12 GPU cores
A Chipworks teardown showed the inner workings of the iPad Pro’s dual-core processor, and it comes with 12 GPU cores, no L3 cache, and a 128-bit memory controller. Read on to see the rest.
HTC's One A9 is an Android-powered iPhone
If you've ever thought the iPhone looks great, but you just can't deal with iOS, HTC has the phone for you. One of the first handsets shipping with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the 5-inch HTC One A9 is an unabashed iPhone 6 lookalike.
Apple says battery performance of new iPhones vary within 2-3% of each other
Apple has addressed concerns over the alleged performance differences between A9 chips used in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.
Here's how the Samsung-made A9 chip fared against its TSMC counterpart in benchmarks
Curious to know how the Samsung-made 14nm A9 chip performed against the 16nm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) chip? Well, Chinese site MyDrivers managed to obtain two Apple iPhone 6s units and ran benchmarks to determine which is better.
Two different sized A9 chipsets found in the Apple iPhone 6s, one is 10% smaller
Chipworks reports that there are actually two different sized A9 processors in the Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. One of them is manufactured by Samsung while the other is built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
The different components in the 64GB iPhone 6s cost Apple an estimated US$234
Analysts from investment banking enterprise Merrill Lynch claim that the different components in the 64GB iPhone 6s cost Apple an estimated US$234. Can you make a guess which component is the most expensive?
