#apple calls A12 Bionic chip ‘the smartest and most powerful chip ever in a #smartphone’
Apple has unveiled its latest chip powering the newest batch of iPhones: the A12 Bionic. The company says it’s the industry’s first ever seven-nanometer chip and Phil Schiller, on stage in Cupertino, introduced it as the “the smartest, most powerful chip in a smartphone.”
It contains a six-core CPU (made up of two “performance” cores and four “efficiency” cores), a four-core GPU (which is up to 50 percent faster than A11), and an updated version of the Neural Engine, a special part of the chip designed to handle AI tasks.
The A11 had a two-core Neural Engine, but the A12 bumps that up to eight cores. And while the old Neural Engine could crunch through 600 billion operations per second, the new version can handle 5 trillion operations…
