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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Apple A11 bionic chip for IphoneX, why is it so revolutionary ? lets get right into it.

The Apple A11 bionic chip is the first Hexa-core processor by apple compared to the quad-core processor in the predecessor. Along with that there is a three core Graphical processor unit which means there are 10 cores active in the processor but not a big deal as Octa core and Deca core processors are being used in other phones from way back in 2013, but Apple A11 is so much better and smarter then other Deca core processors.
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First you need to know how to access a processor.You have to understand the basic five things that assesses the performance of processors.

1) Architecture of the processor : the A11 bionic chip is based on ARM V-8.3 A processor according to our opinion arm processor are more energy efficient, other processor makers usually invest
heavily in low power architectures and thats the point where this Arm processor gets up in the game.
2) Fabrication process : this process defines the distance between each transistor in the processor, and smaller is the distance faster the processor will be. A.11 processor is fabricated with 10nm finFET process as compared to the predecessor which was fabricated in 16nm finFET  processes, So A11 will be 35-40% better.
3) Number of cores ( ability to handle tasks) : Number of cores is where apple slowly gets there game up in the market. More the number of cores, more the transistors inside that could be divided in modules to perform the tasks more specifically but as the Deca core processors where already there since 2013 but there was not a single app or task to use all the cores due to which it never brought into translation for real life performance.Counter to this argument apple will have 2 high performance cores that will take use of all processor intensive non traditional tasks and energy efficient cores called 'mistral' that will handle normal operations.
Apple claims that the 6 cores of bionic chip are 25% faster then the predecessor and the energy efficient cores are 30%faster then predecessor and apple claims its better to have a full utilization if Hexa core processor rather then to have a underutilized Octa core processor,

4)Even tho, the speed of processor also depends on the number of transistor ,the smaller the size is, more the number of transistor will fit in the space and hence more will be the processor speed as the distance between each transistor is now 10nm finaFET. A11 has 4 billion transistors which will almost give u speed of higher then 2.80ghz clock speed.
5) Apple has also developed a machine learning algorithm which understands the repetitive tasks done by the user, optimizes them and passes them onto the energy efficient cores which will result in battery saving.
Further more, in order to enable face id and portrait lightning there is an image single processor which can be considered as the 7th core of bionic chip. Apple claims that this can do 7 billion operations per second.The remaining 3 core GPU supports apple's metal 2 graphic api and core machine learning that can enable augmented reality to the image. Combined with all 5 factors the apple A.11 chip can blow away any other processor on real life performance. Hence telling how futuristic apple devices will be.


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