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You have dramatically overestimated Apple.
It's not two years behind, and it really depends on what part of the SoC you are talking about.

The SD855 should be compared to the A12
The SD865 should be compared to the A13

The 865 isn't even announced (let alone could you buy any device with it), only leaked. So, uh, no.

The 855 is roughly on par with Apple A10 in single-core and A12 in multi-core. That's because it has eight instead of six cores. You're gonna have a hard time finding an application that takes advantage of six cores, much less eight.

Qualcomm is ahead of Apple in GPU design.

Yes, that can be argued.

The SD855+ is behind the A13 but is an older design.

It's their current top-end offering so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the fact remains that all chips look at PPA -> Power, Performance, Area tradeoffs and ALL mobile processors look a performance per watt. Apple isn't doing anything the test of the industry isn't also doing.

They just happen to be doing it better, and that's been consistently the case for ~7 years now.
 
The new forums look nice, but as long as people like that guy are still here, it's just lipstick on a pig.

He did the same on another forum I used to go to and got banned for it. I really hope Samsung pays him to be honest. It always seemed odd to me that people who clearly have ZERO interest in purchasing Apple products always have to come to Apple focused forums/threads to tell everyone how much better other products are.

A bit more on topic, I’m pretty sure we aren’t going to see huge leaps in performance anymore for CPUs in phone, it will be more focused on efficiency and probably adding more “coprocessors”
 
On the one hand this is cool, and realistically the iPhone doesn't NEED to be faster, there aren't any apps that I'm aware of that are bumping into the limits of what the processor can do full on. I am wondering a bit more about the iPad though. I use a bunch of graphics apps on my A9X iPad Pro, and I'm already bumping into it's limitations. I realize the the A13X will be several generations newer, but I'm wondering if this means that the iPad's processor is also going to be more about better battery life than better performance? The A12X was already a beast, I'm hoping that the A13X will still be fantastic and make it so that I wasn't dumb for sitting out the last iPad Pro. (Okay I was kinda dumb, but I wasn't using my iPad more and I'm now working on a huge drawing projects so I'm planning on getting this year's model.)
 
Nice. However, its a waste on iOS.

Perhaps in a macOS laptop it will be very useful if it can handle desktop os - a lot of multi-threading and multi-tasking.
 
All this power to browse social media, watch Netflix, give me map directions and send emails! While the A13 has impressive stats, it seems more at home in a notebook than a phone.

It's great an iPhone 11 Pro has the power cure cancer, but will anyone really tap into that power?

Will gaming still dim the screen due to thermal constraints?
 
Pardon me - but is this right:

"Text to Speech"

Or should it be "Speech to Text"

I mean - text to speech isn't such a big deal I don't think - unless it really tweaks pronunciation, or something I am not aware of. I believe it is Speech to Text that needs the computing horsepower.

Or are these terms used interchangeably?

I'm curious.

Natural language processing is extremely resource-intensive, yes.
 
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Probably used interchangeably by some, but these people would be muppets :)

Text to speech is the easier task, but there are still some problems, so it's not near a good reader yet. There are equal letter sequences that are different words (A live show about kids who live with their parents). e = mc^2. Chapter I, ii, iii and iv. King Alexander I (which will likely come out wrong, while Queen Elizabeth II has a good chance to come out right). Do you know me friends Seamus and Siobhan? And my nice niece who lives in Nice?


That’s what I thought.

For this we need a lot of computational power
 
1 trillion operations a second...... I can't even begin to imagine. It's mind boggling to think how far we have come since the original iPhone

supposedly RISC-V designed chips would give all manufacturers completely control over the IP on chip.Just about all Chinese makers are on board. Waiting for Macs to have

still though lightning port
 
supposedly RISC-V designed chips would give all manufacturers completely control over the IP on chip.Just about all Chinese makers are on board. Waiting for Macs to have

still though lightning port
RISC-V only helps with some of the IP. And lots of folks will still sue for patent infringement.
 
8.5 billion transistors on the chip...

I can't imagine 8.5 billion switches on a single chip. How can you build 8.5 billion switches in such a tiny area. All of it running off portable power for hours and we complain of the low battery life.
 
This is one department that Apple is way ahead of the competition and has continually decimated any competition chipsets.
 
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