Processors become one of the important components in smartphone devices. Therefore, processors with the latest technology will present optimum performance.
Apple currently has an A9X processor with 16 nm architecture. While Samsung's competitors have begun to use the architecture of 10 nm through Snapdragon chipset and Exynos. But soon Apple will soon follow its competitors.
As reported from Phone Arena, Tuesday (4/7/2017), based on the latest leakage is known Apple is preparing the latest processor architecture 10 nm. The processor to be used on the iPad Pro will be named A10X as the successor of the A9X.
As the latest technology, some changes were present in the A10X as clock speeds increased from 2.26 GHz to 2.36 GHz. In addition L2 cache capacity also increased to 8 MB from previously only 3 MB.
Although there is an increase in terms of performance support, but the size of the A10X will be smaller than the A9X. Comparison of both adrift far enough, even the size of A10X almost half of A9X.
The A10X chipset has an overall area of 96.4 mm square while the A9X measures 143.9 mm square