The Apple A14 Bionic is a
64-bit
In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide. Also, 64-bit CPUs and ALUs are those that are based on processor registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. A comp ...
ARMv8.5-A
, designed by
Apple Inc.
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It appears in the
fourth generation iPad Air and
tenth generation iPad, as well as
iPhone 12 Mini
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,
iPhone 12
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,
iPhone 12 Pro
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, and
iPhone 12 Pro Max. Apple states that the
central processing unit (CPU) performs up to 40% faster than the
A12, while the
graphics processing unit (GPU) is up to 30% faster than the A12. It also includes a 16-core neural engine and new machine learning matrix accelerators that perform twice and ten times as fast, respectively.
Design
The Apple A14 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit, six-core CPU, implementing
ARMv8
ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC