Apple
Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets. With their newest chip, Apple is promising class-leading performance and power efficiency once again, with a particular focus on machine learning/AI performance. The launch of the M4 comes as Apple’s compute product lines have become a bit bifurcated. On the Mac side of matters, all of the current-generation MacBooks are based on the M3 family of chips. On...
Apple and UnionPay Will Bring Apple Pay To China In Early 2016
Today Apple and China UnionPay announced plans to bring support for Apple Pay to China by the beginning of 2016. China UnionPay is the only bank card organization in...
2 by Brandon Chester on 12/17/2015
Apple Releases an iPhone Battery Case and a New Lightning Camera Adapter
In addition to releasing iOS 9.2, Apple has launched two new accessories for their iOS devices today. The first of the two is something I touched on in our...
35 by Brandon Chester on 12/8/2015
Apple Releases iOS 9.2
Today Apple released iOS 9.2 to iPads, iPhones, and iPods worldwide. The update is another incremental release, improving on features and removing bugs that are still lingering since the...
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Apple Open Sources The Swift Programming Language
Back in June at WWDC 2015 Apple surprised a number of people by announcing that they would be making their Swift programming language open source in the near future...
70 by Brandon Chester on 12/3/2015
Correcting Apple's A9 SoC L3 Cache Size: A 4MB Victim Cache
Along with today’s analysis of Chipworks’ A9X die shot, I’m also going to use this time to revisit Apple’s A9 SoC. Based on some new information from Chipworks and...
14 by Ryan Smith on 11/30/2015
More on Apple’s A9X SoC: 147mm2@TSMC, 12 GPU Cores, No L3 Cache
Over the Thanksgiving break the intrepid crew over at Chipworks sent over their initial teardown information for Apple’s A9X SoC. The heart of the recently launched iPad Pro, the...
121 by Ryan Smith on 11/30/2015
The iPad Pro Preview: Taking Notes With iPad Pro
For the past week, I’ve been working on a review of the iPad Pro. For better or worse it has been a very quick week and I’ve been working...
199 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 11/11/2015
The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review
To be perfectly honest, this past year has been remarkably boring in the mobile segment. For whatever reason, phones have either stood still or regressed when it comes to...
531 by Ryan Smith & Joshua Ho on 11/2/2015
The Apple iPad Mini 4 Review
For a while now Apple has been holding two launch events toward the end of each year. The first event in September is used to launch new iPhones, and...
98 by Brandon Chester on 10/28/2015
Apple FY 2015 Q4 Results: Record Fourth Quarter With 48 Million iPhones Sold
Today Apple released their Q4 results from fiscal year 2015, and in what seems like an almost unending cycle, the company has once again set a new record for...
44 by Brett Howse on 10/27/2015
Apple Updates Their iMac Peripherals
In addition to introducing a new 21.5" iMac with 4K Retina display and an upgraded 27" iMac with 5K Retina display, Apple also announced some interesting improvements to their...
68 by Brandon Chester on 10/13/2015
Analyzing Apple's Statement on TSMC and Samsung A9 SoCs
Since we first learned that the A9 SoC in Apple’s iPhone 6s lineup is dual sourced - that is that it's being made by two different vendors with two...
147 by Ryan Smith & Joshua Ho on 10/9/2015
Apple’s A9 SoC Is Dual Sourced From Samsung & TSMC
Picking up from our conversation this morning on Apple’s A9 SoC, the crew over at Chipworks has been working hard over the weekend to decap A9 and their first...
99 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2015
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Preliminary Results
At this point the iPhone release cycle is pretty well understood. One year, Apple releases the design refresh that changes the external design significantly while generally focusing on evolving...
185 by Joshua Ho on 9/28/2015
Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Unspecified Bug
Today Apple will release iOS 9, and Apple Watch users were also supposed to receive an update to watchOS 2 which comes with a number of significant improvements to...
11 by Brandon Chester on 9/16/2015
The Apple iOS 9 Review
2015 has been a pretty big year for Apple as a company. Product launches this year included the Apple Watch, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the iPad Mini...
227 by Brandon Chester on 9/16/2015
Hands on With the iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4
While the iPhones are an important aspect of Apple’s September annual announcements, the real surprise of the show was the iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4. For those that...
183 by Joshua Ho on 9/10/2015
Hands On With the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
While the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are relatively the same phone on the surface compared to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, in just about half an hour...
74 by Joshua Ho on 9/9/2015
Apple Announces the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
Today, Apple announced their refresh of the iPhone 6 lineup, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. For those that are unfamiliar with Apple’s “s” refreshes, these are years...
61 by Joshua Ho on 9/9/2015
Apple Announces Release Dates for iOS 9, watchOS 2, and OS X El Capitan
Today Apple made a number of new announcements at their fall 2015 event. There are two new iPhones, two new iPads, and a new Apple TV set top box...
7 by Brandon Chester on 9/9/2015
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