Learn about Apple A14 Bionic chip on iPhone 12 and iPad Air 2020

In the event of "Time flies" on the morning of September 16, 2020 (according to Vietnam time), Apple launched the iPad Air 2020 with the latest A14 Bionic chip. And this chip has appeared on the new iPhone 12 series launched on October 14, 2020. In the following article, let's learn about Apple A14 Bionic!

1. What is Apple A14 Bionic chip? Which product line is being equipped on?

Apple A14 Bionic chip is the processor developed by Apple, first appeared on the iPad Air (2020) (4th generation) model, released on September 15, 2020.

This is the chip that is said to excel in performance as well as the ability to save energy compared to the previous chip - Apple A13 Bionic .

On October 14, Apple brought this A14 chip to iPhone 2020 models such as iPhone 12 , iPhone 12 Mini , iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max .

And furthermore, later this year, the A14 Bionic chip may be available to Macs through the Apple Silicon project of homegrown computers.

2. The architecture of the Apple A13 Bionic chip

Apple A14 Bionic is produced based on 5nm process from TSMC (Taiwan) - the world's largest mobile chip maker.

As can be seen, the first benefit that this chip brings is its extremely battery saving and higher performance, at least with the chips produced on 7nm process currently on the market. . Now, we will go into the architectural details of the Apple A14 Bionic.

- 6-core CPU

Helps to deliver higher performance than the previous Apple A13 Bionic chip and has a faster processing speed than most PCs , laptops, according to Apple on the iPad Air 2020 product page .

- 4-core GPU

A14 Bionic chip provides ultra-fast graphics processing power, helping you experience AR applications like never before.

Besides the upgraded CPU and GPU power, this new chip also includes 11.8 billion transistors , increasing performance and saving battery life for up to 10 hours .

Apple A14 Bionic is also equipped with 16 Neural Engine cores with 11 trillion operations processed per second, increasing the computation speed by twice and increasing the processing speed of machine learning by 2 times.

3. Compare the Apple A14 Bionic chip with the Apple A13 Bionic and the A12 Bionic

According to the iPad Air 2020 product page, in terms of processing power , the Apple A14 chip will be up to 40% faster than the A12 Bionic. Meanwhile, the graphics speed will be up to 30% higher than its predecessor A12.

Meanwhile, according to information from AnandTech page : If compared with the Apple A13 chip, the A14 Bionic will have 16% higher CPU performance and the upgrade of the GPU graphics is 8.3% (if the indexes of the Apple chipset is consistent across generations).

In addition, the Apple A14 Bionic has 3.1 billion more transistors than the Apple A13 Bionic, which allows the chip's performance to be increased but the battery is more economical.

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So we have just reviewed the outstanding features of the Apple A14 Bionic chip equipped on the iPad Air 2020, and the newly launched iPhone 12 lines of the Apple family.

Hope this article brings you useful information!