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iPhone 6s Uses Different-Sized A9 Chips From Samsung and TSMC
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I'd be willing to bet that there is more variance within a model, than between the models. That said, now that there is a hardware difference, any heat, lag, screen, tint, pixel etc issue, no matter how spurious the correlation will be attributed to this.
Not at all - first it deals with 22nm. As a response to a general statement about TSMC's reputation among manufacturers, however, the focus wasn't on the process itself but how the company handled the issues encountered, communicated, level of support provided and the amount of risk assumed with their partner. AMD didn't have those same business complaints even though they also had technical production issues with their former GlobalFoundries subsidiary as it provided a very high level support of support akin to an IDM.
I am too serious of a person and do not laugh at anything (see other long posts I wrote)... BUT THIS one made me laugh!!!!
This photo seems relevant:
The point is differences are negligible in this case...
We are on MR forums, don't you know ?
Ahem... Did you at least read the article?
If you get the Samsung chip, you might get a slightly faster chip with slightly better battery. If you get the TSMC chip, you get the satisfaction of not supporting Samsung. Give me the TSMC chip!
It started right out of the box. I noticed my brightness was being limited to 50% while restoring my backup. Today, I got an actual warning saying my phone needed to cool down before being able to use it.
Every instance of overheating was indoors at a comfortable temperature, no sunlight involved.
Just downloaded and ran it. Pretty sure the results are normal.
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Nope; just want what I pay for that's equal to what everyone else received when they purchased the same item. For this and anything else I spend my hard earned money on.
I'm positive the phone you received will perform as advertised or will be replaced by Apple if it fails to live up to it's published specs.
Er... temperature and power consumption between 16nm and 14nm is negligible, if the architecture is the same.
The key of temperature and power consumption in 20nm-or-less process is architecture. In such scale the channeling effect is significant, so FinFET, or 3D ti-gate transistor structure, is used instead. Thus electron channel length of each transistor is not limited to the width of wire anymore.
The benefit of 14nm over 16nm is the density of chips in the same size of silicon waffle. 10% less in die size equals to 10% more of productivity of each production line, and more productivity means higher gross margin of chip manufacturer. However, it's not something the consumers should be worried about.
Actually I've no idea why people are freaking about this issue.
16nm and 14nm are considered the same generation that succeed to the 20nm process. If Apple put chips of different generations (20nm vs 14/16nm, or 14/16nm vs 10nm) into devices, that would be a problem. But it's not the case.
That comment wasn't about how Apple is stupid. Its about how Apple should have seen the stupidity of people coming that think 16 vs 14nm actually even matters.
Ok got it. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Ummm, everyone's iPhone is the same, performance wise. OMG, the things people obsess over. If it turns out that one of the chips performs .00000001% faster, and you have the other one. I hope you attempt to take it back to the store. I'd love to see the looks on the store employees faces.
Verizon 6s 128 GB Silver
TSMC Chip
2533 Single
4414 Multi
Kind of feels like these benchmarks are all over the place.
Ive seen samsungs lower than mine...
Maybe the app is not detecting properly?
TSMC Chip
2533 Single
4414 Multi
Kind of feels like these benchmarks are all over the place.
Ive seen samsungs lower than mine...
Maybe the app is not detecting properly?
Battery life will likely be the most noticeable difference between the two chips for most users.
Performance would come into play with regard to thermal control, possibly throttling back sooner. Ars noted the 6S does drop off while running the GeekBench 3 "work in progress" test for it, which is available here. It would be interesting to see the comparison between thermal throttling on Samsung and TSMC versions of the 6S in particular - test durations longer than the standard benchmark test runs for. The larger 6S+ doesn't have the same issues dissipating heat.
