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iPhone 6s Uses Different-Sized A9 Chips From Samsung and TSMC
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long time lurker.
funny to see the people who b
ch about samsung do a 180 and play the apple lottery when they find out the samsung chip is better.
funny to see the people who b
ch about samsung do a 180 and play the apple lottery when they find out the samsung chip is better.
http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/28/a9-samsung-tsmc-speed/
Don't know if anybody else on here has read about this yet. I'm sure it will be kind of a controversy just like the Toshiba and Samsung SSDs in MacBooks; or the LG/Samsung displays. I'd be curious to know if it is possible to find out what manufacturer made the chip in my phone and any of the other component makers. Little stuff like that is neat to find out, in my opinion.
Don't know if anybody else on here has read about this yet. I'm sure it will be kind of a controversy just like the Toshiba and Samsung SSDs in MacBooks; or the LG/Samsung displays. I'd be curious to know if it is possible to find out what manufacturer made the chip in my phone and any of the other component makers. Little stuff like that is neat to find out, in my opinion.
So your wife is hot and you are slow and laggy? Sounds like divorce is in your future. Better start popping the Viagra.
Only for mega-geeks, who probably already own an Android phone because they can load roms on them.
Then we'll have a debacle like we had here last year, when people found out that the 6 benchmarked slightly faster than the 6 Plus. The mud-slinging and name-calling on this forum was akin to an all-out Android/iPhone flame war. The staff had a hell of a time cleaning it up, if I recall. People are hooked on the numbers game.
Ah yes, the eternal debate about size vs. efficiency. Where have I heard this before... heehee
Listen, I've got a laggy 6s, and I was chalking it up to 9.0.1. I definitely will see if 9.1 helps. But the stuttering is real. Something tells me it has zero to do with which chip you have, though.
Yes, but some people read that as "It's confirmed that one is better than the other and if I have the wrong one my phone is terrible!"
long time lurker.
funny to see the people who b
Most people on these forums understand that Samsung makes quality components, and that those components have already been used in many Apple products.
Apple diversify supplies so stock wont run out on launch. people cry. Apple uses one supplier, there isn't enough stock. people cry. This is like asking where the kitchen at your local restaurant bought their tomatoes from
Typical. If your paying this much for a phone you want the best guts / components available and to have this information hidden is tantamount to a bait and switch. I prefer samsung over TSMC and until these are proven to be identical performance wise and thermal wise, I would not touch any of them.
Hold on this is Apple. They are masters at obfuscation of information (hence their stance on specs as a comparison feature), so they won't tell you. You may need x-code to find out which chip.
No I rreeeeaaallllllllllyyyyy doubt you'd ever notice anything between the two. Your problem is probably unrelated and most likely caused by something in the backup you restored, meaning it's a software issue and a clean restore without the backup would fix it.
Only the 1% of the customer base that lurks on forums and obsesses over tiny manufacturing differences.
They could have entirely different specifications, and most people wouldn't care, as long as they work.
It can't possibly make a noticeable difference. It's 16nm vs 14nm. You're not going to notice any real thermal differences.
You could not be more wrong. They mentioned one is made by a 16nm process other is 14nm. The smaller the process the better. The 14nm chip would run cooler, use less battery and even run faster. 12.5% smaller is not insignificant.
The rest simply have no idea what the size of the manufacturing process means in the real world.
When anyone in this thread is able to demonstrate tangible evidence that they are a silicon architect, and/or work at a silicon fab, I'll take anything they say, seriously. It seems a lot of the complaints will likely come from people TOTALLY unaware of how electronics sourcing, supply and manufacturing work, and how supply/demand causes substitute drop-in replacement parts to be perfectly acceptable.
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