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iPhone 5S is going to go into production during this month, and inside the device we should find a high-performance graphic chip made by those from PowerVR. Those from computerworld believes that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), will give up the PowerVR 5 series for the suggestively named 6 series Arrogant. The new chips have not been implemented in iPhone 5But iPhone 5S they could make their appearance and apart from the considerable improvement in performance, they also manage energy much more efficiently, so they will contribute to increasing the autonomy of the battery.
The Series6 is Imagination's premier GPU core for high-end mobile devices and DTV which can support the leading edge of graphics APIs and GPU compute APIs. There are numerous technological achievements within Series6:
- These chips support up to 8Kx8K display resolution.
- The high-end core (G6630) offers six shader clusters alongside performance and power optimizations.
- The new entry-level G6100 chips offer one shader cluster along with a pixel texturing unit.
- Series6 GPU's are fully compatible with Series5 and Series5XT GPUs, which should ensure a smooth migration path for developers upgrading apps.
In the video clip above you have a demonstration of how the graphics chip is able to run a technological demo with complex graphic elements, but of course it can do more. Being able to support 8K x 8K resolutions and OpenGL ES 3.0, this chip would give game developers the opportunity to further improve the quality of games for iDevices, but it all depends on Apple. If the iPhone 5S will not be the "lucky" device, then we can expect the iPad 5 to contain a graphic chip of this kind, Apple being forced to improve the graphic power of its tablets quite a bit.
