Apple A6 - Chip

The Apple A6 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. that drives the iPhone 5, which was introduced September 12, 2012. Apple claims that it is twice as fast and has twice the graphics power compared to the Apple A5.

The A6 is said to use a 1.3 GHz custom Apple-designed ARMv7 based dual core CPU, rather than standard cores like in previous designs, and an integrated triple core SGX 543MP3 graphics processing unit (GPU) with the same performance as the previous Apple A5X processor found in the third-generation iPad. The SGX 543MP3 is running at 266MHz.

Manufactured by Samsung on a High-κ metal gate (HKMG) 32 nm process, the chip is 96.71 mm2 large which is 22% smaller than the A5 and it consumes less power than its predecessor.

Information is scarce but the A6 features a new tweaked instruction set, ARMv7s, features some elements of the ARM Cortex-A15 such as support for the Advanced SIMD v2, and VFPv4.

Source : Wikipedia