In about 10 years, Apple has multiplied by 19 the number of transistors in its mobile processors. It corresponds roughly to a steady rate of improvement of 34% per year on the number of transistors, or a doubling every 2.5 years. In real dollars, an iPhone has roughly a constant price: the price tag
  • AaronParan@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    At this point, it’s like the amount of cheeseburgers McDonald’s has sold: who the fuck cares?

  • TheMacintoshGeek@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    iPhone 14 Pro Max. The A16 Bionic contains 16 billion transistors, a 6.7% increase from the A15’s transistor count of 15 billion. It includes an improved neural processing unit (NPU) with 16 cores known as the “Apple Neural Engine”, a new image signal processor (ISP) with improved computational photography capabilities, and a new module for handling screen-related features that Apple calls a “Display Engine”.

    The A16 has hardware video codec encoding and decoding support for HEVC, H.264, and ProRes.

  • eovapntw@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Surprised to see the A9 wasn’t such a big step forward from the A8 in transistor number, despite how much better performance the 6s had. Then it came to me the 6s was the first with 2gb of RAM, which is a very important factor