iPhone 13 Pro 6 generations of A-Series Bionic? why still Bionic?

[Super Xander]

I have wondered what is up with Apples chip naming of the A-series? Since A10 they started naming them with as Fusion and Bionic, but the Bionic term has been giving to Allé the Apple chips since A11, which now is 6 generations of chips.

Have anyone heard or know why they don’t keep the naming simple again, or could would you expect future chips to be called something different?

 

[snipr125]

I think Apple have kept the Bionic naming scheme for their 6 core A chips. From the A11 to the A16, it’s been the same core set up hence the same name. The A10 Fusion was unique as their only quad core A chip.

 

[ifrit05]

The A10 Fusion was to highlight the introduction of Performance and Efficiency cores on the same SoC, while the A11 Bionic introduced the neural engine.

Apple sees no need to rename the current chip as it does not have any significant changes since A11 aside from node shrinks and better performance/battery life.

 

[Yebubbleman]

I have wondered what is up with Apples chip naming of the A-series? Since A10 they started naming them with as Fusion and Bionic, but the Bionic term has been giving to Allé the Apple chips since A11, which now is 6 generations of chips.

Have anyone heard or know why they don’t keep the naming simple again, or could would you expect future chips to be called something different?

"Fusion" for A10 Fusion and A10X Fusion was their first big.LITTLE implementation (wherein you have asymmetric multi-processing [wherein you have high performance processor cores and high efficiency cores on the same processor die]). I'm no Apple marketing person, but I'd imagine the "Fusion" name was to mark this as their first time doing this in their SoCs.

"Bionic" for A11 Bionic through A16 Bionic (with A12X Bionic and A12Z Bionic for iPad Pros) was to mark the fact that, in those A-series SoCs, there is a 16-core machine learning co-processor in the form of "The Neural Engine". I'd imagine the M1 (and M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra, by extension) isn't known as the M1 Bionic as this was sort of a standard include for all M-series SoCs and probably always will be.

I'd imagine they'll drop "Bionic" and replace it with some other suffix when some other key new SoC co-processor or feature debuts. It's not like the asymmetric multi-processing went away after A10 and A10X (if anything, it vastly improved in A11 and newer because, unlike in A10, both sets of cores were able to be used at the same time).

 

[Homme]

"Bionic" for A11 Bionic through A16 Bionic (with A12X Bionic and A12Z Bionic for iPad Pros) was to mark the fact that, in those A-series SoCs, there is a 16-core machine learning co-processor in the form of "The Neural Engine". I'd imagine the M1 (and M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra, by extension) isn't known as the M1 Bionic as this was sort of a standard include for all M-series SoCs and probably always will be.

I'd imagine they'll drop "Bionic" and replace it with some other suffix when some other key new SoC co-processor or feature debuts. It's not like the asymmetric multi-processing went away after A10 and A10X (if anything, it vastly improved in A11 and newer because, unlike in A10, both sets of cores were able to be used at the same time).

Incorrect, A11 has a dual core ANE and the A12 and A13 have an 8 core ANE. A14, M1, A15, M2 and A16 is where they put a 16 core ANE

as of the M1, it was only really called M1 because Apple achieved the next level in the evolution of the X chips that the M1 ( you can call it A14X) is a evolution of sorts

A11’s performance and efficiency cores may operate simultaneously which makes it a ton better than the A10 but A10X has some things that makes that SoC on par or slightly better than the A11