Apple A13 Bionic

The Apple A13 Bionic is one of the US company Apple developed and the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC manufactured ARM -based system-on-a-chip (SoC). Introduced in September 2019, the SoC will be used on the iPhone 11 , the two variants of the iPhone 11 Pro and the second generation of the iPhone SE .

design

The A13 Bionic has a 64-bit ARMv8.4-A six-core CPU developed by Apple with two high-performance cores called Lightning that clock at up to 2.66 GHz, and four energy-efficient cores called Thunder that run at up to clocked at 1.73 GHz. The Lightning cores each have 128 KiB L1I and 128 KiB L1D available, the shared L2 is 8 MiB in size. The Thunder cores each have 48 KiB L1I and 32 KiB L1D as well as a shared 4 MiB L2 available. For both, Apple claims a 20% increase in performance. For the first time, Apple is installing special units (called AMX) to accelerate matrix calculations for AI applications. They should run up to six times faster than a calculation by the CPU and achieve one trillion calculations per second (1 TOps).

The A13 Bionic integrates a graphics processor (GPU) developed by Apple with four shader clusters as well as a dedicated neural network hardware (NPU) with 8 cores. According to Apple, both should be up to 20% faster than in the predecessor Apple A12 Bionic . The M13 motion coprocessor is integrated in the SoC and a system cache available to the entire SoC is 16 MiB in size.

The A13 Bionic is manufactured at TSMC in a 7 nm FinFET process 'N7P' and contains 8.5 billion transistors, it is 98.48 mm² in size. The SoC with the designation APL1W85 forms together with 4 GiB (3 GiB in the SE) LPDDR4X-RAM a PoP (Package-on-Package), manufactured in TSMC's InFO-Packaging process, the memory interface is 64-bit wide.

Individual evidence

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