Each year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) releases new iPhones, and inside are new processors that offer performance and feature enhancements over their predecessors. On Sept. 12, Apple continued that tradition ...

Apple's A12 Bionic is extremely small, courtesy of TSMC's 7nm technology. Thanks to a teardown report from TechInsights, we now have another key piece of information about the A12 Bionic -- the chip's ...

Unsurprisingly, Apple today announced its newest generation of iPhones. And with that, it also announced its new chips: the A12 Bionic. What makes the A12 Bionic stand out is that it’s built using a ...

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Time and again, we have seen Apple do more with less when it comes to its custom mobile processors for iPhone and iPad devices. The company's hardware products often trail the competition in specs, ...

Apple’s A12 Bionic is the name of the most important chip inside the iPhone Xs and Xs Max and Xr detailed here. Make no mistake, this is the first to ship 7nm but not the first to sample or be ...

Apple's new iPhones come with a fresh chip called the A12 Bionic. The company says it's the industry's first 7-nanometer chip and contains 6.9 billion transistors. That statement is true, to an extent ...

The Neural Engine gives the iPhone a super smart brain. Apple called the new iPhones‘ A12 Bionic chip “the smartest and most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.” And despite the company’s occasional ...

Following Apple's A12 Bionic powering iPhone XS and iPhone XR models, Huawei has released its own custom 7nm ARM System on a Chip. But despite using the same fab process, Huawei's Kirin 980-powered ...

In revealing the iPhone XS on Wednesday, Apple also detailed its core processor, the 7-nanometer A12 Bionic, which includes a new iteration of its "Neural Engine" for tasks related to machine learning ...

Another year, another brand-new iPhone chip from Apple. Apple says that the A12 Bionic chip is made up of 6.9 billion transistors -- a whopping 60% increase in transistor count from the ...