Two Kinds of A9 Chips of iPhone 6: One by Samsung and Other by TSMC

The most recent iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus have begun to advance toward clients since Sept. 25. The new iPhones keep running on the A9 chip, which has been supplied by two producers.

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The A9 processor is Apple's third-era chip that has a 64-bit building design. Apple asserts that the A9 chip is the most progressive processor utilized as a part of any iPhone as well as in any cell phone at present accessible in the business sector.

The A9 chip conveys execution that was once discovered just in desktops. The new A9 chip makes the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus up to 70 percent speedier in the matter of CPU execution and up to 90 percent quicker with respect to GPU execution.

"The A9 chip brings another level of execution and efficiency to iPhone 6s. A quicker ordeal, as well as a superior one. The A9 chip is equipped for gaming console-class illustrations execution that makes recreations and different applications much wealthier and more immersive," per Apple.

Preceding the dispatch of the most up to date iPhones, numerous bits of gossip noticed that both Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be supplying the A9 chip. In any case, numerous specialists trusted that this may not be the situation as TSMC utilized the 16-nanometer procedure of making chips while Samsung utilized the 14-nanometer system.

The most recent teardown of the new-era iPhones directed by Chipworks affirms that the custom Apple A9 processor has been produced by two makers: Samsung and TSMC.

The Samsung-made A9 chip that bears the item number "APL0898" measures 96 square millimeters. Notwithstanding, the TSMC-delivered A9 chip that demonstrates an item number of "APL1022" measures 104.5 square millimeters, which speaks the truth 10 percent greater that the Samsung chip.

"It was an amazement to discover two diverse application processors in two generally indistinguishable telephones," notes Chipworks, "There is a distinction in the kick the bucket size for the APL0898 (Samsung) and the APL1022 (TSMC)."

Chipworks likewise proposes that sourcing same internals from two-unique suppliers designates "significant sourcing issues" for Apple.


It stays misty if there is any distinction in execution in the A9 chips created by Samsung and TSMC. Chipworks expects to lead a test to discover if any execution contrasts exist in the chipset.






- Arksemi Electronics