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Which chip does your 6s(6s+) have?
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Performance-gates are so much more fun than cosmetic-gates.
Apparently TSM knew their chip was superior according to a Barron's article citing a semiconductor industry analyst:
"We would remind readers That TSMC has made a very big deal about their power consumption/leakage advantage over other competitive manufacturing processes. TSMC has claimed up to a 20% power advantage in their 16nm process which may jive with these unconfirmed comparison results."
Apparently TSM knew their chip was superior according to a Barron's article citing a semiconductor industry analyst:
"We would remind readers That TSMC has made a very big deal about their power consumption/leakage advantage over other competitive manufacturing processes. TSMC has claimed up to a 20% power advantage in their 16nm process which may jive with these unconfirmed comparison results."
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Are you sure about this? i have the A1688 Model and mine is saying I have the TSMC chip
so at this rate when I do eventually get mine, if it has the samsung it will go out of it's way to ruin my life, the home button will set me on fire. half the screen will be dark and someone in the factory will have taken a pee under the screen 
anyway can anyone who got a phone after release post which chip they have?, everyone seems to be getting ones with a TSMC chip from the sounds of it, I don't know if this is true but a theory I have is Apple might be using less Samsung chips after the initial batch to meet demand
still think it's far to early to jump to conclusions and return a phone over it though, there hasn't been anywhere near enough testing to reach an absolute conclusion.
anyway can anyone who got a phone after release post which chip they have?, everyone seems to be getting ones with a TSMC chip from the sounds of it, I don't know if this is true but a theory I have is Apple might be using less Samsung chips after the initial batch to meet demand
still think it's far to early to jump to conclusions and return a phone over it though, there hasn't been anywhere near enough testing to reach an absolute conclusion.
Do we really have any insight into how this benchmark test would translate into real world usage?
That's impossible. Too many variations of signal, settings, etc. It'll basically be up to the individual and their specific circumstances.
Unfortunately peeps are right tmsc chip feels less battery drain. Wtf apple?
Welp, I'm getting my iPhone exchanged. At&t is sending me another one; hopefully its a tsmc model.
Not impossible. There are so many iPhones out in the wild, it's naive to think that there aren't countless situations of very similar signals, settings and usage. Based on that, there is a highly probable chance that some of these similar users have a different chip from each other. And based off the battery test, it seems like a big deal.
i got 2 64GB ATT iPhone 6 phones (direct from Apple). One space gray and one white. they came with different chips.
Ahhhh got you! This is the first year I folded and bought the S variation tooNo, I have an iPhone 6
Thanks, honestly I am happier to have the A1634 AT&T model for LTE 30 band use with my unlimited data plan.
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this website probably explained very well the difference between samsung and TSMC chip
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/a-3d-touch-above-the-iphone-6s-and-6s-plus-reviewed/4/#h2
A9 performance on 6s (supposedly samsung one)
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/charts.022.png
which shows thermal throttling after 10 mins
A9 performance on 6s+ (supposedly TSMC one)
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/charts.023.png
this is ridiculously good even after 30 mins intense use.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/a-3d-touch-above-the-iphone-6s-and-6s-plus-reviewed/4/#h2
A9 performance on 6s (supposedly samsung one)
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/charts.022.png
which shows thermal throttling after 10 mins
A9 performance on 6s+ (supposedly TSMC one)
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/charts.023.png
this is ridiculously good even after 30 mins intense use.
Male bovine fecal matter, even Apple itself states theses tests DO NOT REPRESENT REAL WORLD USE. Apple has said that differential in chips is 2 to 3 percent which is within the margin of error between even identical phones. This based on the accumulative upload data received by Apple from automatic reports sent by phone. Unless you turned that sharing off.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/ap...rmance-of-new-iphones-a9-chips-vary-only-2-3/
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Apple agrees with you. Course there will be arm chair engineers here that wil disagree. They would be designing, manufacturing, and selling millions of their own designs, but they don't want to.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/ap...rmance-of-new-iphones-a9-chips-vary-only-2-3/
Didn't Apple also tell us we were holding our phones incorrectly? Sometimes PR is just DC.
Apple said:
Certain manufactured lab tests which run the processors with a continuous heavy workload until the battery depletes are not representative of real-world usage, since they spend an unrealistic amount of time at the highest CPU performance state. It’s a misleading way to measure real-world battery life. Our testing and customer data show the actual battery life of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, even taking into account variable component differences, vary within just 2-3% of each other
Didn't apple just admit that under huge usage the difference is big?
so obviously you can see the difference when you need to use your iphone often:
for example: navigation or location service, talk for a long time, use M9 chip to track your motion.
considering my iPhone 5s run out of battery in 3 hours now due to tracking my motion. Obviously I can see the benefit by using TSMC one a lot