Apple places order for A11 chips for the iPhone 8

12 May 2017
TSMC secured orders from MediaTek and HiSilicon for 10nm chips as well.

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Anonymous, 15 May 2017Don't you think an Iphone is overpriced considering its jus... moreIf the iphone is made in the USA the price of the Iphone would be much much higher, At first I am not a fan of outsourcing since products should be made in the country of origin were it was founded , so quality control can be done. But come to think of it Companies outsource their customer service and manufacturing would save them on labor and therefore be able to sell thier products on a much lower price. Companies can put funds in research and development therefore improving their products. Remember how much the first celphone cost when it first came out it was too high due to parts and labor were expensive. So there is good to outsourcing even thoough I am not a fan of it.

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    Anonymous, 15 May 2017Don't you think an Iphone is overpriced considering its jus... moreIPhone isn't just overpriced, it's cheating people by selling a cheap quality charity product at high prices, why I spend highest on a smartphone then find out I need to compromise about everything just for having an iPhone which isn't that big of a name even after other brands are on a luxury level. It's just like buying cheap clothes for charity the only difference is Apple won't help anyone with that money. Wait? Maybe they will if you buy iPhone red

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      Anonymous, 12 May 2017Soon we will see 1pico meter processI read an Article here on GSM ..Chipset Manufacturers foresee that the Limit is only 7nm Chipset size...But Technology is Evolving Time by time ... We Technology Evolution has no Limit..... CHIPSET EVOLUTION It's Like making a BLACKHOLE in Space ... COMPRESSING THE HUGE DAMN TECHNOLOGY INTO A LITTLE CHIP ...

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        Jarret, 13 May 2017More specs of 'made in China' iPhoneDon't you think an Iphone is overpriced considering its just made in Chine were labor is supposed to be of good quaity but cheap?

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          alnherco, 12 May 2017Ohh god can you imagine what would be an a11 octacore?!?! B... moreYou are quite the noob. Apples A10 already packs more transistor than any other ARM design on 16-14nm so it would be impossible for Apple to create an 8 core mobile A11.
          A CPU like that would be too inefficient even for tablets.

          It's all about the transistor budget and how different OEMs decide to spend it. For example what's more important is the way the apps actually run and feel on your phone than the fact that they open 2-3 seconds faster. Also the most common apps like social apps, system apps and so on don't open faster on iphone's and these are the apps people use more often.

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            • 14 May 2017

            The chip that will demolish the competition.

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              • 13 May 2017

              That supplied A11 image though... :P
              A six year old kid can PhotoShop better using MS Word!

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                • 13 May 2017

                More specs of 'made in China' iPhone

                  alnherco, 12 May 2017Ohh god can you imagine what would be an a11 octacore?!?! B... morenah. A10=Snapdragon835=Exynos8895 in this time. (when it comes to raw prowess in AnTuTu. the sum of the score in this test is ROUGHLY the same. which kicks in at around 175k points) I believe the A11 would rest around 220k points.

                    Anonymous, 12 May 2017Very useful on a 2011 720p screen and very limited multita... moreActually sheep asked for the curved QHD S.Amoled display from Samsung, answer only FHD Available

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                      • 13 May 2017

                      Put an i7 processor in a pebble watch, it'll run faster but oh??

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                        Zenodroid, 12 May 2017Produced by Samsung again? Stop distorting facts you conservative fanboy. Like I said before, TSMC is an exclusive supplier of the A10 last year and will be the only supplier of A11 this year.

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                          Hoffmann, 12 May 2017Imagine the single-core score of this, it could very easy s... moreAll thanks to Chinese Oem.

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                            Anonymous, 12 May 2017MediaTek and Kirin Iphone ??????* HAHAHAHAHA....Are you laughing at yourself??? You didn't even understand the Article!!

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                              alnherco, 12 May 2017Ohh god can you imagine what would be an a11 octacore?!?! B... moreWell, you can't have your cake and eat it too :) A single A10 cores is much more powerful the the competition but it is also huge (physical) in comparison. If they would go down that same road as the other ARM designers, adding alot more cores, they would also have to make them much smaller and there by less powerful. Which in my opinion would be a bad decision judging by how the load on a mobile device usually looks like. I hope they stick to few but powerful cores.

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                                alnherco, 12 May 2017Ohh god can you imagine what would be an a11 octacore?!?! B... moreStill a very limiting os with an old tech screen so useless for me.

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                                  alnherco, 12 May 2017Ohh god can you imagine what would be an a11 octacore?!?! B... moreVery useful on a 2011 720p screen and very limited multitasking..... Well I suppose sheep dont care about those things.

                                    Ohh god can you imagine what would be an a11 octacore?!?! By some magic Apple decide to make 8 cores all running up and all available for the developers! I think on benchmark probably running circles around 835 and exynos..

                                      AnonD-497816, 12 May 2017A11 it's not the first processor based on 10nm!!!!!that's true though. Exynos 8895 and snapdragon 835 uses it before. it's the first IPHONE that uses 10nm technology though. (and I'm an android user.)

                                        Anonymous, 12 May 2017MediaTek and Kirin Iphone ??????* HAHAHAHAHA....read. for god sake. It mentions WHAT OTHER COMPANIES will use 10nm fabrications as well. Not that there will be Mediatek and Kirin iOS devices.