Apple Has Filed Trademarks for 'A10 Fusion' and 'iSight Duo'

[BMcCoy]

Many people have changed their tune about this years iPhone...

Not necessarily... it's possible to be excited or interested in an Apple keynote, with all its hype and intrigue, whilst having no intention of buying the main product to be unveiled.
I'll be watching today, but there is 0% chance of me buying the iPhone 7, as I am very happy with my SE.

 

[sza]

Hard disk in iPhone confirmed!

No.

Mac may adopt the A10 processor.

 

[S.B.G]

Maybe the A10 Fusion is bringing some real serious firepower to iOS devices...

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

A10 Fusion seems to suggest some kind of merging of iOS and macOS to me...

Perhaps both run on ARM/A10?

 

[M87]

A10 Fusion sounds REALLY interesting.

 

[ryansimmons323]

Thanks, Joe.

 

[Return Zero]

iSight Duo is fairly obvious, but here's hoping A10 Fusion is related to something other than image processing. I'd love to see a cool new hardware implementation. Maybe we could see new MacBook Pros with both intel and A10 processors (similar to having integrated/dedicated graphics, one for low-power computing and one for intense usage). Is that even possible?

 

[Ramchi]

Plot thickens!!! Really getting interesting!!!!

 

[Elijen]

Fusion? I think they try to copy Samsung again!

 

[ghost187]

Is it crazy that I am hoping that Apple gives me a reason to spend an additional $3,000 in today's event?

 

[smacrumon]

No.

Mac may adopt the A10 processor.

That's seems 100% more likely than iPhone HDD. But if it was the other way around, I think I would be speechless.

 

[recoil80]

Or maybe it's just what they're calling the tech in the A10 that "fuses" two separate images into one Super Image™ !

That's a good idea, but I wouldn't call it A10 fusion. A10 means nothing to the average customer, and A10 is the name of 2016's chip, next year we'll have A11 if they don't change the naming convention.
A10 is not something like OS X

 

[VinceLP]

care to explain a little? my comment was literally a question, i don't know much about this stuff, looked up APFS and read about snapshots and cloning so it's above my head really.

APFS (for "Apple File System") will come as a preview (or beta ? well it will be limited at first [not available for boot, not compatible with TimeMachine, not compatible with FileVault ...]) with macOS Sierra and is supposed to become standard in 2017... it also is supposed to be used on/by every device/OS Apple will make.

Some features are :

• optimized for flash memory/SSDs
• snapshots is... well... a snapshot of your HD (on the HD itself) at a certain point in time (you decide when you want one)... from this moment on, the file system will keep track of every modification you make so you can continue working normally... but also in a way that you'll be able to rollback to the moment you froze the snapshot (until you delete it). Of course, it'll take space on the hard drive, but not as much as a full/real duplication of all the data
• cloning allows you to duplicate a file or folder on the same drive without using (virtually) any additional space on your HD/SSD and it does that in no time. Additional space will (though) be used when you modify one of the duplicated file. 200Gb available on your HD, duplicate 3 times a 4Gb file > still 200Gb available. Modify one of the 4Gb you just duplicated > 196Gb available. Delete one of the unmodified duplicate > 196Gb available.
• partitions are supposed to be less... strict (for lack of a better word), meaning they will be expandable when running out of space
• various encryption levels
• increased performance
• ...

There's probably more to it, some features are a bit more complex than the way i introduced them... but you get the idea of what a new file system can offer.

 

[cdmoore74]

For the first time in many events im actually excited

I'm also excited but not as excited, if that makes any sense. Basically I'm not expecting to be blown away. The stuff being shown won't make me line up like the good old days.
Off topic but I stood in line for the iPhone 6S Plus last year and it was a total waste of time. Verizon along with others did not receive the Plus models. So this year I'm preordering 100%. And I don't expect the Watch to be a huge departure from what we already have.

 

[rzc16512]

If apple puts a hard drive in the iPhone

 

[keysofanxiety]

I wonder if Apple have managed to make a chip with the x86 instruction set, or if their ARM chips can emulate x86 in the hardware.

They're already close to smoking dual core mobile i7s...

 

[2457248]

i hope for something unexpected at this event, with all the rumors, current hype level is quite low this time.

 

[johngordon]

Not necessarily... it's possible to be excited or interested in an Apple keynote, with all its hype and intrigue, whilst having no intention of buying the main product to be unveiled.
I'll be watching today, but there is 0% chance of me buying the iPhone 7, as I am very happy with my SE.

Ditto - its always interesting to have a look and see what's new. I was never totally sold on the 6 series design as much as the 5, so the SE was a great upgrade for now, with a view to upgrading next year.

 

[peterh988]

Control Strip. Could the new MacBook Pros indeed be coming in 2.5 hours?

Wasn't the dock like feature of OS 7,8, 9 called the control strip?

 

[geoff.barnett]

Two Things I think that A10 Fusion could be:
1. A Dual CPU solution with an A10 ARM CPU and an x86-64 (intel or AMD) CPU
2. A way of offloading some processing from the A10 to a GPU

The A10 Fusion could well be a solution for MacBook Pro's where the laptop could contain a high performance Intel Processor and a high power efficiency A10. There have been rumours for years that Apple was looking to move CPU architecture to ARM based processors in their notebook line, in order to improve on power efficiency for battery life.

To entirely swap the CPU for ARM would mean that Apps requiring High performance such as Video, 3D Modelling and High End Gaming, would not be able to run with good performance under any emulation that Apple might deploy (Apple used an emulation technology called Rosetta when it migrated from PowerPC to x86 many years ago, this was possible because when that occurred the PowerPC performance was lagging behing that of intel chips in many areas, so when Apps ran under Rosetta, they weren't significantly slower than on previous generation macs).

Deploying two CPU's would allow Apple to accomplish a transition between CPU archtiectures, and provide extended battery life when using core productivity apps like Safari and iWork, as well as other apps like MSOffice (provided they were re-compiled for ARM), but still maintain high performance for using x86 or x86-64 apps or Windows (via Parrallels or VMware Fusion). Such a move would also mean that Apple could potentially use higher performance CPU's with larger power requirements (provided they can be cooled effectively within the chassis), because they would only need to be switched on when there was an application that needed those high performance functions.

 

[zahuh]

Has the potential to be an epic keynote!

 

[klagermkii]

 

[recoil80]

I wonder if Apple have managed to make a chip with the x86 instruction set, or if their ARM chips can emulate x86 in the hardware.

They're already close to smoking dual core mobile i7s...

Emulation is possible, but slow.
iPad pro is really fast and they could put an Apple SoC on the Macbook and get good performance, but I'm not sure is going to happen this year.
It wouldn't be so hard for an app developer to be ARM compatible, but I guess we would have had an hint during WWDC if they were to release an ARM Mac in 2016.

 

[thisisnotmyname]

storage incorporated in the SoC?

 

[Jsameds]

Could the reason for no updates to the Mac range for so long, be that Mac is moving to ARM?