Noul cip A14 Bionic

Gratie noului proces de fabricatie, Apple A14 Bionic consuma in teorie (cum adica in teorie? l-au lansat fara sa il testeze de nu stiu in practica?) mai putin curent, ridicand stafeta in materie de performanta. Compania sustine faptul ca bucatica lor de siliciu este mai rapida decat cel mai popular laptop cu Windows (marketing, cel mai popular nu e cel mai performant, asadar irelevant, mai ales ca pretul produselor apple nu e pretul "celui mai popular laptpop), de trei ori mai agila decat cea mai rapida tableta cu Android (initial il compara cu laptop, apoi cu tableta? evident ca un procesor destinat laptopurilor e mai performant ca unul destinat tabletelor) si de sase ori mai sprintena comparat cu un Chromebook. (care chromebook? alea la 250$ cu celeron?)"

So what's special about the A14 Bionic?

Firstly, it's based on new 5nm process technology from Taiwan's TSMC - manufacturers of many of the world's most popular mobile processors. That means it's even more efficient than previous 7nm silicon enabling savings on battery life alongside increased performance.
Apple says the iPad Air boasts the same 10 hour battery life despite its increased functionality.

And crucially it's a step ahead of anything that underpins Android devices currently, as well as Intel - it's latest 11th generation Core processors are based on a further refinement of the 10nm process.
As with pretty much all mobile processors in the world, it's based on the core chip specifications from British firm ARM - the Apple A14 Bionic is a 64-bit ARM-based System-on-Chip (SoC).
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There are six processing cores for a 40 percent boost in CPU performance while there's also a new graphics microarchitecture - giving up to two times the graphics performance, too. The graphics part has four cores. There are no clock speeds quoted at all - Apple doesn't do that.
The chip also boasts a decent step up in machine learning capabilities thanks to machine learning accelerators which come to the iPad for the first time. Indeed the machine learning acceleration on the CPU itself is up to 10 times faster.
There's a new 16-core Neural Engine that is twice as fast as before, and capable of performing up to 11 trillion operations per second.

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Apple says the combination of the Neural Engine, CPU machine learning accelerators, and high-performance GPU enables powerful on-device experiences for image recognition, natural language learning, analysing motion, and more.
Apple's vice president of platform architecture Tim Millet introduced the new chip:  "For customers using iPad Air for performance-intensive apps like editing 4K videos, creating works of art, or playing immersive games, the incredible performance of A14 can handle them all with ease. In addition to the blazing fast CPU and GPU, A14 is loaded with custom technologies that drive that...like a much faster neural engine, which will make iPad Air more powerful for machine learning."

consumul teoretic este in laborator, nu in viata reala.

pai si ce? n-au testat si "fostul" procesor sa faca o comparatie in aceleasi conditii?

Ne limitam strict la rezultatele din laborator. Nu stim cum l-au testat. SIgur au teste facute, dar nu stim cum le compara (la fel, teoretic ar trebui sa fie teste identice, doar ca arhitectura nu prea mai este aceeasi, deci iarasi nu prea putem face o comparatie egala).