Chip A7: More Power on which a Smartphone Should Have

Do not get me wrong, this title becomes much less a criticism of Apple for the incorporation of powerful A7 chip in the iPhone 5s , but rather it is a reflection on the amount of power that we are reaching have in the palm of our hand.

Surely the A7 chip has set a new precedent, and not just about processing power and graphics performance that incorporates, doubling the previous generation, but it is the first chip to implement a 64-bit structure in a cell Mobile.

It is the first time that Apple implements the same chip as the iPhone and the iPad

If we remember, this is the first time the company Apple uses the same chip for both the iPhone and for the iPad. In this way, the new iPhone 5s and the new iPad Air and iPad Mini Retina make use of the chip A7 with 64-bit structure. But on second thought, why do we need more power?

Something that perfectly illustrates this situation is the question put to him by Rene Ritchie Brian Klug on a podcast about technology. The question was simple: "Now that the new A7 chip is present on the iPhone 5s, the Air and iPad iPad Mini Retina, does that mean the phone has too much power or that new tablets falls short?"

Brian Klug was very clear: "the phone [iPhone 5s] is clearly overpowered". If you think about it, not without reason. Why do we need more power now on a mobile device? If the new iPad Air andiPad Mini Retina can not take full advantage of the A7 chip until later, and not talk about iPhone 5s.

With the new A7 chip, a single CPU core can use up to 8 GB / s bandwidth

As seen in iMore , this is Apple's first processor that is able to provide good amounts of memory bandwidth to all consumers, both iPad and iPhone. Now, a single CPU core is capable of using up to 8GB / s of bandwidth.

A lack of new processors that will appear next year, these data are quite amazing. Until Intel does not begin to produce its mobile chip 64-bit, it will be hard to top what Apple has achieved with the A7 chip. No other manufacturer to work with ARM architecture has been able to do that.