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Apples A7 Cyclone CPU detailed: A desktop class chip that has more in common with Haswell than Krait

2014-03-31 14:48:45| Extremetech

Some six months after Apple shocked the world with its 64-bit A7 SoC, which appeared in the iPhone 5S and then the iPad Air, we finally have some hard details on the Cyclone CPU's architecture. It seems almost every tech writer was wrong about the A7: The CPU is not just a gradual evolution of its Swift predecessor -- it's an entirely different beast that's actually more akin to a "big core" Intel or AMD CPU than a conventional "small core" CPU.

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