Apple is rumored to have all of its A9X processors made on 10nm, due in time for Xmas 2016 (Ipad Pro 2).
If not the A10X, at least A11 is already taped out on TSMC's 10nm process. 2H 2017 appears to indicate an accelerated roadmap schedule for Iphone 7s.
Even the annual iPhone launch timetable this year (iPhone 7) might be accelerated:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iphone/ip...504/#toc-4
LOTS and lots of scoops on this in above link, like waterproofing, spitting water out of the speakers, LOL..
Apple knows they need to fight harder, as iphone sales have been falling with Google and Samsung doing better this year relatively, ouch!!!!!!!!!
What if Apple ditches Intel's air-cooled $300 Core M processors and goes with their beefed-up 6-8 core A10X's in their MacBooks? If Apple decides to move up from the 4.5W power envelope, to at least double that (say 12W, or even 15W, with some air-cooling)... BYE BYE, INTEL!!!! TSMC is already on track to beat Intel's 10nm fabbing tech to the punch, let alone Samsung!
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-ap...essor.html
Why continue to pay $300 for Intel's Core M processors that eat up to 15W (not 5W, since Intel's TDP is actually only representative of average workload at non-boosted clock rather than max consumption) when Apple could very easily make the A10X perform yet another 20-30% faster than the A9X, double up on the cores for better multitasking, and save hundreds of bucks of cash on each one of them fabbed at TSMC?
I wonder just how Intel plans to continue to appeal to Apple when Apple's own dual-core (read: only 2 CPU cores) A9X already blows Surface Pro 4's air-cooled Core i5 out of the water in graphics while trading blows in the CPU benchmarks.
![[Image: 79906.png]](http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9766/79906.png)
Not even Nvidia's Tegra X1 in Google's Pixel C can even come close to this:
![[Image: 79656.png]](http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9972/79656.png)
Now, just imagine an air-cooled A10X in a lightweight MacBook running an updated optimized version of iOS, with at least 6 CPU cores...
BTW, Samsung seriously needs to STOP ignoring the GPU aspect of their own dear tablets, especially with such falling sales of tablets in this market where the popularity of tablets has been declining so much. The progress of Galaxy Tab 2-->3-->4-->S-->S2, etc.. lagged SO far behind the GPU advances in each flagship phone generation (S2----->S7). What the heck, Samsung?!? We need a reason to upgrade our tablets!
If not the A10X, at least A11 is already taped out on TSMC's 10nm process. 2H 2017 appears to indicate an accelerated roadmap schedule for Iphone 7s.
Even the annual iPhone launch timetable this year (iPhone 7) might be accelerated:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iphone/ip...504/#toc-4
LOTS and lots of scoops on this in above link, like waterproofing, spitting water out of the speakers, LOL..
Apple knows they need to fight harder, as iphone sales have been falling with Google and Samsung doing better this year relatively, ouch!!!!!!!!!
What if Apple ditches Intel's air-cooled $300 Core M processors and goes with their beefed-up 6-8 core A10X's in their MacBooks? If Apple decides to move up from the 4.5W power envelope, to at least double that (say 12W, or even 15W, with some air-cooling)... BYE BYE, INTEL!!!! TSMC is already on track to beat Intel's 10nm fabbing tech to the punch, let alone Samsung!
Quote:the real story in 2016 could very well be Apple's switch in processors. Will we see that happen? Only time will tell.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-ap...essor.html
Why continue to pay $300 for Intel's Core M processors that eat up to 15W (not 5W, since Intel's TDP is actually only representative of average workload at non-boosted clock rather than max consumption) when Apple could very easily make the A10X perform yet another 20-30% faster than the A9X, double up on the cores for better multitasking, and save hundreds of bucks of cash on each one of them fabbed at TSMC?
I wonder just how Intel plans to continue to appeal to Apple when Apple's own dual-core (read: only 2 CPU cores) A9X already blows Surface Pro 4's air-cooled Core i5 out of the water in graphics while trading blows in the CPU benchmarks.
Not even Nvidia's Tegra X1 in Google's Pixel C can even come close to this:
Now, just imagine an air-cooled A10X in a lightweight MacBook running an updated optimized version of iOS, with at least 6 CPU cores...
BTW, Samsung seriously needs to STOP ignoring the GPU aspect of their own dear tablets, especially with such falling sales of tablets in this market where the popularity of tablets has been declining so much. The progress of Galaxy Tab 2-->3-->4-->S-->S2, etc.. lagged SO far behind the GPU advances in each flagship phone generation (S2----->S7). What the heck, Samsung?!? We need a reason to upgrade our tablets!