As we approach the date of announcement of the iPhone 6 the web continue to appear all the new information on the "apple" of the new product. Today, the Chinese resource News.mydrivers published the first image processor A8, which will be used in the iPhone 6, iPad mini and iPad Air 3 of the second generation.
iPhone 5s, released last fall, the world's first smartphone that supports 64-bit architecture - it is two times more productive than the previous model iPhone 5. And all thanks to the 2-core processor with a custom A7 ARM-design. 64-bit chips A7 are made in compliance with the 28-nm process technology. For the calculation corresponds to the pair of nuclei Cyclone (ARMv8-A) and Graphics PowerVR G6430, while in the case of the iPhone 5s and iPad mini processor running at 1.3 GHz, and the tablet iPad Air - 1.4 GHz.
According to the source, Apple A8 processor will be dual-core and keep the 64-bit architecture, but will run at a higher clock rate. Operating frequency will be increased to 2.0 GHz. To cope with the heat will help the new 20 nm process.
I must say that now even some budget Android-smartphone equipped with a 4-core processors, but the popular Apple devices work with dual-core solutions. However, even in this configuration, the computational core Apple Cyclone in conjunction with iOS easily bypass the performance of its competitors.
It is worth noting that this week, a year after the presentation of iPhone 5s, HTC has introduced the first 64-bit Android-smartphone . Despite the presence of promising platform, the device uses a 32-bit software - the "native" 64-bit version of Android for ARM processors yet.