Inside Apple’s A13 Bionic system-on-chip<article>
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<p>Since the very first Apple-designed smartphone chip (the A4 back in 2010), the company has been a force to be reckoned with in mobile silicon design. It was with the A6 a couple years later, when Apple used its own CPU design instead of a licensed architecture, that its performance leadership really started to kick into high gear.</p><p>For the last several years, Apple’s CPU has really been untouchable. The A11 Bionic featured not only a custom Apple-designed CPU, but finally ditched the PowerVR-based graphics processor for its own custom GPU. In addition, it introduced the Neural Engine, a custom block of silicon separate from the CPU and GPU, focused on accelerating Machine Learning computations.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3442716/inside-apples-a13-bionic-system-on-chip.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Inside Apple’s A13 Bionic system-on-chip
