Apple’s new chip contains 8.5b transistors. Also, there are 6 CPU cores: 2 high-performance cores running at 2.66 GHz, and 4 efficiency cores. It has a quad-core graphics processor, an LTE modem, an Apple-designed image processor, and an 8-core neural engine for machine intelligence functions that can run 1t operations per second.

This new chip is smarter, faster, and beefier, and yet it somehow manages to consume less power than its predecessor. It’s 30% more efficient than last year’s A12 chip, 1 of the factors that contributes to the extra 5 hours per day of battery life in the new iPhones.

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