Trusted Reviews: iPhone X will sport a six core A11 chip, Apple’s most powerful chipset to date

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iPhone X will sport a six core A11 chip, Apple's most powerful chipset to date Sep 11th 2017, 09:56, by Roland Moore-Colyer Apple's next iPhone will sport an A11 chipset with six cores making it the most powerful system-on-a-chip Cupertino has designed to date. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith leaked details of the upcoming chip which will almost certainly feature in the iPhone 8, expected to be dubbed the iPhone X. Just to clarify on the A11: it's two high-power Monsoon cores and four low-power Mistral cores, all independently addressable. No Fusion — Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) September 10, 2017 Like previous A series chipsets, the A11 will use the big.LITTLE design licensed from Cambridge tech firm ARM, with two cores, code-named Monsoon, designed to handle processor hungry tasks matched with four slower cores tasked with carrying out more general, lower-power tasks on the iPhone. In theory, this design should give the iPhone X all the power it needs for graphics and processor hungry apps, yet still have a battery life that lasts a good working day or more. Compared to the A10 Fusion chips found in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the A11 has an extra two cores. Interestingly, this year's refreshed iPad Pro also sports a six core A10X chip but that has three high-powered Hurricane cores matched with a trio of lower-power Zephyr cores. It's pure speculation, but it would be likely that the A11 will be faster in a pure processor sprint than the A10X, which is designed to handle more professional-grade tasks, while the next iPhone needs to be a jack-of-all-trades in the smartphone arena. Another standout feature of the A11 is its potential to run its six cores independently, which should allow it to run multiple tasks and apps more effectively or carryout multi-threaded processing. In some cases where maximum processor horsepower is needed, there's potential for the A11 to run all its cores at full whack, presenting a glut of power for apps that make use of intensive graphics and other features of the upcoming iOS 11, such as augmented reality. All this is to be revealed officially on September 12, so we'll be able to sort the wheat from the chaff of rumours that have been cropping up in the run up to the iPhone 8 launch. Related: iPad Pro 2 What do you want to see from tomorrows iPhone launch? Lets us know on Twitter or Facebook.  The post iPhone X will sport a six core A11 chip, Apple’s most powerful chipset to date appeared first on Trusted Reviews.

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