Apple details A14 chipset ahead of iPhone 12 lineup announcement

15 September 2020
The first 5nm chipset is official.

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Annas, 16 Sep 2020Until Apples iphone 7 event, almost there was no true wirel... moreYou meant people fell for rebranded bluetooth earphones, which now (by design) are more prone to losing and companies blindly followed money.

That's what you call innovation ?

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    Annas, 16 Sep 2020Until Apples iphone 7 event, almost there was no true wirel... moreYes true. Tell that to the Chinese OEMs who innovate a lot of smartphones but most of their products are e-waste (except Huawei). Not to mention some may have issues after a few months usage and ends up being discarded.



      Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Which is probably a one man company with Anand as sole dire... morelol nope. Please do some research then come back, thank you.

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        Nick Tagataka, 16 Sep 2020The site is owned by Future plc, not Anand himself.Which is probably a one man company with Anand as sole director and shareholder.

          Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020He still owns the site. What kind of influence do you thin... moreThe site is owned by Future plc, not Anand himself.

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            Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Antutu takes into account a lot more than just CPU. This i... more„ yet don't have a single article on Apple cheating customers over batterygate“

            I don’t want to sound like defending Apple, but they probably didn‘t have an article because „batterygate“ wasn‘t cheating but instead just smart power management for broken batteries, because phones would otherwise shut down and be left with a flat battery.

            I speak from experience because I have a Xperia Z1 Compact which had a broken battery. You could start it up at 80% charge, then open Play Store and Update 2 Apps, which is too demanding so the phone shuts down. Then you plugged it in and it had to charge up again from 0%. I‘d rather have it slow down than die completely.

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              Nick Tagataka, 16 Sep 2020I mean, Anand retired Anandtech in 2014 THEN started workin... moreHe still owns the site. What kind of influence do you think an owner has over the articles published on his site?

                Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Anand, founder of Anandtech works for Apple (not sure what ... moreI mean, Anand retired Anandtech in 2014 THEN started working for Apple's hardware division. What kind of influence do you think he would have over Anandtech's current articles and reviews?

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                  Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Antutu takes into account a lot more than just CPU. This i... moreAnand, founder of Anandtech works for Apple (not sure what he does there though). So don't expect them publish anything negative about Apple.

                  Apple's CPUs have always been 2 generations ahead of the best Android CPUs. Their GPUs have pulled ahead as well. Which is amazing considering they're beating ARM reference designs and previously class leading adreno graphics.

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                    YoshiAkash, 16 Sep 2020lol. I can hear some android fans crying over something/nothing. Exactly. This is just small gains, nothing to cry about.

                      Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Antutu takes into account a lot more than just CPU. This i... moreIn many cases that haven't been the case. Low end Mediatek phones still boosts its performance in specific benchmark apps to an unrealistic level, some of older Huawei flagships "cheated" albeit using different method (i.e. limits the performance in any apps but in benchmarks), and Samsung, HTC, Xiaomi phones also got caught for showing similar cheating behaviour in the past. Apple never did that before.

                      "They invented their own benchmarking app"
                      Which one???

                        Mediatek sux, 16 Sep 2020They arent as big of a joke as you. What does that have to... moreWell said.

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                          Mediatek sux, 16 Sep 2020They arent as big of a joke as you. What does that have to... moreAntutu takes into account a lot more than just CPU.
                          This is why gaming phones score higher.

                          The reason why I mentioned Anandtech being a joke is coz they have an unverified slander article for Android phones cheating in benchmarks, yet don't have a single article on Apple cheating customers over batterygate. According to them cheating comprises of High performance mode activated during benchmarks. In reality, this high performance mode is available to the user during regular usage as well. It just defaults to balanced version to save battery.

                          They invented their own benchmarking app just so they could get their overrated Ax processors ahead in benchmarks. AppleTech is super biased. Plz give better sources while arguing.

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                            AnonD-454049, 16 Sep 2020Why does Apple have to be so stingy with the battery capaci... moreApple is also stingy with memory, storage and cameras. Anything to keep the iPhone production cost as cheap as possible.

                              Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Anandtech is a joke Tell us why isn't there any artic... moreThey arent as big of a joke as you.
                              What does that have to do with this. You can lookup other sources for benchmark info if you really think they are biased.
                              Gaming phone or not the one with better gpu scores higher. Dedicated cooling only helps in sustained performance. Peak would be the same for same soc.

                                Merrier, 16 Sep 2020You got one thing wrong. Exynos, though inferior in perform... moreUsually when you compare the Exynos and Kirin SoCs in the second half of the year Kirin has an upper hand especially in CPU performance and power efficiency due to newer lithography/ARM core design or both. In the first half of the following year Exynos catches up and surpasses Kirin in GPU performance. This year doesn't follow that usual pattern though, because if you compare S20 Ultra and Mate 30 Pro you see that the former is leading in both CPU and peak graphics performance whereas the latter is faring better when it comes to CPU/GPU power consumption and sustained graphics performance (though as I said in my previous comments - since Exynos 990 and Kirin 990 are not in the same chassis, the direct comparison between two SoCs is not exactly possible).

                                  Anonymous, 16 Sep 2020Anandtech is a joke Tell us why isn't there any artic... moreSee my comment below, it's happening on the SD variant of S20 Ultra as well.

                                    Nodal to Mesh, 16 Sep 2020Well for your justification I would like invite you once to... more"Meanwhile the Snapdragon S20 Ultra doesn't throttle here at all, and that is absolutely not normal – this is not a chip that is somehow super-efficient or has amazing cooling. Over the years I’ve encountered a lot of such odd results with Snapdragon phones in this benchmark, but this time around I’ve had enough of the weird behavior and I do think there’s some low-level cheating going on. The phone will actually start heating up a lot more than under other workloads, up to the point that the test will actually crash"

                                    - From 3DMark benchmark results from Anandtech's Galaxy S20 series review article.

                                      DLLM, 15 Sep 2020More like 99% of IPHONE users don't care about those s... moreThat might be because of how OEMs project/market their products. Apple's product page lists hardware and software features but not much on actual numbers. Even battery life is mentioned without actual capacity. Most of the Android OEMs mention numbers before going into the features.
                                      Apple doesn't have any competition in iOS ecosystem, its the sole OEM.
                                      In Android, there are very less unique software/hardware feature per OEM. Numbers are a way for OEMs to differentiate themselves. These are then also used by buyers to select devices.

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                                        MrMing, 16 Sep 2020If Apple can at least provide their iPhones with improved t... moreUntil Apples iphone 7 event, almost there was no true wireless, easy to pair, so intuitive usage headphones....after that year...the market explode....so yea...innovative and moving the world forward hard
                                        I can say, since apple will remove the power brick and headphones, and the rest will follow ,make no mistake, here is an innovative again from the environment point of view
                                        Again, people think just for themselves and want everything to be free...but if you think at cold, these innovations are the real one for the good of mankind not for personal ego...

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