A10 fusion, do we give Apple enough credit?

[KrisLord]

Also for those who keep saying that the A10 4 core CPU is big.LITTLE, it is not:

https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/773591146681380864
https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/773591957234851840

Also quite interesting read:

http://www.xda-developers.com/a-widening-gap-the-a10-fusion-puts-a-chokehold-on-qualcomms-prospects/

Interesting, although I don't know enough about big.little to argue that the A10 isn't using it. To me big.little is just using a combination of high power and low power cores within 1 CPU.

 

[dugbug]

Qualcomm's 820 has it first - the design and the A10 made it an Apple quad core! It not an Apple invention. LOL!

Oh for gods sake

 

[lenard]

Wow, really? I get the idea that the Main cores will be a bit faster, like usual, and should make things feel snappy again like everyone loves but the two low power cores will handle most "idle" tasks. Think of all the times the phone is in your pocket but still talking to cell towers and getting a text message and email and etc. I figure it'll run all the baseband and notification services. Maybe drop down to those cores after a web page is rendered and in memory and just use them to facilitate scrolling. I suspect these low power cores will be a standard for at least a few generations to come and they'll just get more useful each time.

That's the way it would run, no way would Apple let and active app run in a slow core. There can be
A lot going on with an iPhone when it's not being used, that's a perfect. Time for the slow and power saving core to be used.

 

[JulianL]

The MIT / Solidenergy tech is close to production. It's supposed to have double the energy capacity.
"SolidEnergy plans to bring the batteries to smartphones and wearables in early 2017, and to electric cars in 2018. But the first application will be drones, coming this November."

http://news.mit.edu/2016/lithium-metal-batteries-double-power-consumer-electronics-0817

Thanks. That was exactly the one I was thinking of. It does look like the best one in terms of having some chance of making it into production any time soon. "Apple buys Solidenergy Systems" would be an interesting and potentially game-changing headline to read in the next few months.

But knowing apple, they might just make a smaller/thinner iphone with the same runtime

Don't even joke about it!

 

[Ronnoco]

Going from the 6+ to the 6S+ was a night and day difference. Even after a year on the 6S+ I can't complain about performance and I'm a stickler for a fast phone. Web browsing in Chrome with a content blocker is faster on my phone than on my Macbook. I'm struggling to find a compelling reason to upgrade to the 7+.

I'm excited to see and feel the performance difference upgrading from my 6+. With the A10 SoC with a much improved graphics chip, and the 3 GB of RAM that has been confirmed by GeekBench, it should be quite a difference.

 

[gebbl]

I think /r/android on Reddit have been far more insightful and fair than a lot of people around here.

A few quotes from die-hard Android fans:

• We can see all the complaints about Apple's stagnant "innovation" but this is a good example of Apple leading competition and the innovation which grows from it.
• Apple's chip team has been on fire for years now.
• Apple's processors have always been ahead of Qualcomm or even Samsung's offerings.
• That's an incredible result. Qualcomm is so far behind, they might just as well start making stupid inspirational quotes... "It's not about the race, it's about the journey!"
• I have to say, for all their other disappointments, Apple makes some impressive processors.
• Their chip legitimately got me almost halfway considering an iphone.

 

[FFR]

Also for those who keep saying that the A10 4 core CPU is big.LITTLE, it is not:

https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/773591146681380864
https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/773591957234851840

Also quite interesting read:

http://www.xda-developers.com/a-widening-gap-the-a10-fusion-puts-a-chokehold-on-qualcomms-prospects/

Didn't expect to see that on xda