I don't think alteration or Photo-shopping would be required to move a little bit before snapping a picture.
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First Photo of Apple's A10 Chip for iPhone 7 Appears With Mid-July Production Date
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Exactly. Which is why this was photographed by an amateur, not someone attempting to hide the actual photo itself.
Well, I'm an amateur too and I can see when a shot is going to turn out okay, and when it's going to look terrible like this one.
[doublepost=1470851651][/doublepost]I've got the 6502, the mother of all ARMs chips
Less than one month before Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Chinese repair shop GeekBar has shared the first photo of what appears to be the next-generation A10 chip destined for the smartphones on Weibo. The number of pins appears to be consistent with the A9 chip's 64-bit LPDDR4 interface.
While the photo could easily be faked, the chipset is labeled with a 1628 date code, corresponding with mid-July production. Additionally, GeekBar has accurately leaked components for unreleased Apple products in the past, including the iPhone 6s display assembly and iPhone 6 schematics showing a 128GB storage option.
What is pictured here is not the complete A10 chip and may be the RAM layer that is stacked on top of the A10 wafer as one system-on-a-chip, rather than the processor itself. Apple A-series chips are typically labeled on all four edges, suggesting this chipset is in a mid-production state.
TSMC is expected to be the sole supplier of Apple's faster A10 chip based on its 16nm FinFET WLP process. The new processor should bring performance improvements to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The smartphones are expected to be announced on September 7 and released on September 16.
Last year, TSMC-built A9 chips were found to outperform Samsung-built A9 chips in early iPhone 6s battery benchmarks, but subsequent tests showed less significant impacts that Apple later said amounted to only a 2-3% difference in "real world" battery life. Samsung is not expected to be an A10 chip supplier.
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That does make you anxious to know they'll just be sitting there completed waiting for us
Everyone knows you need AT LEAST 3 to be confirmed legit.
Rectangular?!? Man, what a total lack of innovation! Just the kind of lackluster attempt at relevancy I'd expect from today's Apple! If Steve Jobs was still here, it'd be triangular!
If (and only if) Apple positions the iPhone 7 as a serious refinement of the iPhone 6/6S including a significant percentage gain in speed and battery life, then it would be a phone worthy of consideration. If not, 2017 will be a rough year for Apple.
Totally invalid comparison. Santa's elves don't make all the presents the night before, they work all year to get all the presents ready for Christmas.
With all the parts leaked, maybe some animators can make the presentation video ahead of time so we don't need to watch one during the keynote and jump straight to pricing, models and the features they removed.
That way we have more time to talk about the new Mac Pro, iMac and the amazing updates to pro apps.
Ooops, sorry... wrong decade.
Glassed Silver:mac
Absolutely perfect plane for the job, designed to do that job better than anything else possibly could, designed to take hits and keep flying, designed to loiter near the battlefield to be there when the ground forces need it, designed to carry a crazy amount of ordinance. Naturally the Air Force has been trying to get rid of it since day one.
Yeah, it's nice attention to detail, but then he forgot to make the picture blurry, so... I'm calling fake!Everyone knows you need AT LEAST 3 to be confirmed legit.
Glassed Silver:mac
And it is amazing how few of them get "legs" and end up in the wild ahead of time. Really that warehouse has to have some rock solid security for a couple of weeks.
Anyway, these pictures aren't that special - the A10 chip will be announced in a couple weeks anyway. But I've got pictures of next year's chips!!!
Hmmm, you are right.
How about, Tim Cook isn't Zeus able to birth fully completed and packaged iPhones from his head the night before. From birth of Athena who was fully grown and armored.
I've always wondered how early they start making the iPhones in order to have a healthy supply at launch. Since I think the phones always sell with the gold master of the iOS, when that is finished that is day they can start installing the OS and packaging the phones. But you have to figure the fabrication has to happen in huge numbers earlier.
Hopefully I won't derail this thread too much (apologies to those not interested). I always imagined the planning session for the A10 going something like this:
Head Muckity Muck (HMM): "Hey, what we got here is a big ass gun that can make the devil cry uncle."
Underling (U): "Why yes sir, sir. It sure as heck is a big gun... sir.
HMM: "Make it fly son."
U: {gulps} "Uh, sir? Did you say make it... fly? Like, stick... wings on it, sir?
HMM: "Make it fly son."
U: "Sir, typically we build and airframe and add armaments. I'm not sure it can be done the other way around."
HMM: "Make it fly son."
/pissed off Underling tries to build the ugliest, slowest monstrosity he can think of. Makes it out of armor, some more armor, and then uses all the armor. It's heavy and slow and not aesthetically pleasing at all.
/tests plane
/the Devil pees his pants
The rest is history.
Air Force wants to get rid of it because the M.I. Complex can't make money on it.
Anyone on the ground knows the value of the A-10. I read a "tribute" to the A-10 on the inside of a port potty in Afghanistan once. It read "The Warthog, Infantry's Angel in the Sky".
But, for the brass, they want something that looks pretty.
The Air Force brass wants to replace them with multi-role aircraft, like the F-35, which is very lacking in CAS ability, and very expensive.
It is kind of like saying an iPad Pro could replace a desktop computer, and do as good of a job for all tasks.
They need a cgi of Sir Ives and his white background too ;-) so he can describe the phone for 10 mins
I hope not, so far Samsung's 14nm has has tended to use more power when compared to TSMC's 16nm.