11. September 2015 · Categories: Apple

There is one number that leaves me scratching my head from the Apple Event: the 70% performance increase for the A9 processor. This is an astonishing jump in performance given that Apple was already using a 20nm process for the A8. It will be interesting to see how this increase is achieved. Possible avenues are more cores, higher frequencies enabled by better controlling leakages, and better optimized logics. Given that Apple has already caught up to Intel in performance per cycle and core, I would have assumed that Apple would have continued with the slower pace set by the A8