Apple A6X
The A6X chip used in the fourth-generation iPad
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| Produced | From November 2, 2012 to October 16, 2014 |
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| Designed by | Apple Inc. |
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| Max. CPU clock rate | 1.4 GHz[1] |
| Min. feature size | 32 nm.[2] |
| Instruction set | ARM, Thumb-2 |
| Microarchitecture | Swift,[1] ARMv7-A-compatible[1] |
| Product code | S5L8955X |
| Cores | 2[1] |
| L1 cache | 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data[3] |
| L2 cache | 1 MB[4] |
| Predecessor | Apple A5X |
| Successor | Apple A7 |
| GPU | PowerVR SGX554MP4 (quad-core)[1] |
| Application | Mobile |
| Variant | Apple A6 |
The Apple A6X is a 32-bit system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., introduced at the launch of the fourth generation iPad on October 23, 2012. It is a high-performance variant of the Apple A6. Apple claims the A6X has twice the CPU performance and up to twice the graphics performance of its predecessor, the Apple A5X.[5]
Design
The A6X features a 1.4 GHz custom Apple-designed ARMv7-A based dual-core CPU called Swift,[1] introduced in the Apple A6.[6] It includes an integrated quad-core PowerVR SGX554MP4 graphics processing unit (GPU)[1] running at 300 MHz[citation needed] and a quad-channel memory subsystem.[1] The memory subsystem supports LPDDR2-1066 DRAM, increasing the theoretical memory bandwidth to 17 GB/s.[4]
Unlike the A6, but similar to the A5X, the A6X is covered with a metal heat spreader, includes no RAM, and is not a package-on-package (PoP) assembly. The A6X is manufactured by Samsung on a High-κ metal gate (HKMG) 32 nm process. It has a die with an area of 123 mm2, 30% larger than the A6.[2]
Products that include the Apple A6X
See also
- Apple mobile application processors, the range of ARM-based mobile processors designed by Apple for their consumer electronic devices.
References
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