The new A10 chip cu iPhone 7 processor found its way on the internet during this day, in the image below the "heart" of the future smartphone of the Apple company is presented, it being produced for the most part by TSMC, but it seems that it still uses the 16nm manufacturing process, used for the old A9 chip.
This A10 chip hides a dual-core processor, but this is not an unknown for a long time, the company uses processors with three cores only in iPad tablets, so iPhone 7 it will benefit from just as many cores as its predecessors, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Using the same 16nm manufacturing process for the A10 chip with iPhone 7 processor it is still quite strange, some rumors stating that TSMC could choose a more efficient manufacturing process, but the old A9 chip manufactured by the Taiwanese did excellently, so the reasons for its continued use could be based on the good experience with the iPhone 6S.
The new A10 chip for iPhone 7
You can see in the image below that on the sides of the new A10 chip there are specific certification marks for a component of this kind used by the Apple company, so it is quite easy to understand that it would indeed be manufactured for iPhone 7, the source of the image being GeekBar, a well-known iDevice service.
Separate from the information regarding the number of cores of iPhone 7 processor from the new A10 chip and regarding the 16nm manufacturing process, no other details are known about this component, so we do not know how much RAM is hidden inside it and at what frequency the two cores of the processor would be clocked.
It is as clear as possible that the production of components for the iPhone 7 has started, and based on this we can expect that in the next period we will see more and more such images and receive more and more information about the surprises that will bring them the new smartphone.
UPDATED: According to the production code on the chip, 1628, the component would have been produced in mid-July.
So chip, much wow, lol…..
I expected them to produce the chip with 10 nm technology, probably next year.
@zaone, the image above seems to be heavily edited ..besides that, the number of pins in the images is a bit small for such a face .. I don't think it fits on the board presented a few days ago 😉