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Apple Has Filed Trademarks for 'A10 Fusion' and 'iSight Duo'
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Fusion? I think they try to copy Samsung again!
Looks more like fission to me!
shut up and let us enjoy our Holiday
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really smh
I remember when the very first iphone was release people were upset that there was no HDD. They weren't happy with the 8GB flash memory model. Can you imagine iphone with a HDD in 2007????!!!
With so many having already written off the iPhone 7 in favor of next year's model (at a fervor unlike any pre-Phone launch to date), I think many of those same individuals will be placing an order shortly. It's easy (for some) to get caught up in exterior fit/finish as a reason upgrade. But i think the internals are what will astound. If my phone has more processing power than iPad Pro...
We'll know soon enough.
We'll know soon enough.
This is a reasonable guess, but if we assume that Apple wants "Fusion" to mean "kickass Apple STORAGE technology" a more interesting possibility opens up itself.
Persistent DRAM is a technology on the edge of adoption (eg Intel making a big deal about 3D XPoint).
In the future these will give us much faster storage directly on the RAM bus and without requiring the slowness and complexity of SSD controllers. But right now, the most immediate way to use something like this, especially if the cost only allows for small packages right now (eg 256MiB, or 512MiB), is to use that small package of persistent DRAM to hold the most important data structures of the SSD file system, and to act as a cache for small writes. ie to act like an accelerator for the SSD, in the same way that the SSD acts as an accelerator for the HD.
One thing that (IMHO) makes this plausible is that the name A10 Fusion obviously has a limited lifespan. Apple COULD reuse it next year, either as A11 Fusion (new and improved version of A10 Fusion) or keep the name; but it's going to be dumb to keep going through A12 Fusion, A13 Fusion. Which suggest that, unlike something like iSight Duo, this is an optimization for just a year or two. Which matches what I am saying. If whoever is supplying them with persistent DRAM can up the supply enough for next year, or the year after, that traditional flash is not necessary and the entire phone storage system can be persistent DRAM, then the A10 Fusion brand only has to do its job for a year or two.
"A brand new design"?
Edit: The comments link for the presentation is going to the wrong thread. :/
Edit: The comments link for the presentation is going to the wrong thread. :/
I'd bet that the "A10 Fusion" refers to how the A10 uses both small and large ARM cores, much like ARM's own big.LITTLE.
By “bitcode” do you mean bytecode or binary?I think Apple SoC are coming to the Mac sooner or later, but as I said before we would have had an hint during WWDC.
Developers can now upload apps with bitcode, so Apple can recompile them for further optimization and could allow in the future to submit apps for both ARM and Intel Mac. But a transition like this doesn't happen overnight, and would require a new operating system. Either Sierra is fully ARM compatible or ARM Mac will come in the future.
I don't really now what A10 fusion could mean, but even if I'm expecting ARM on the Mac anytime soon I don't think it is related to that.
Anyway this news is right on time, we are so excited for an Apple event and nothing is better than speculate on new trademarks
Bitcode is an intermediate representation of an app. It is compiled, but can be compiled again by Apple to enable further optimisation. So if a new CPU architecture comes out they can recompile your bitcode app and optimise it for that.