Apple A10

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The Apple A10 Fusion is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., part of the Apple silicon series, and manufactured by TSMC. It first appeared in the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus which were introduced on September 7, 2016, and is also used in the seventh generation iPod Touch and the sixth and seventh generation iPad. The A10 is the first Apple-designed silicon to feature a quad-core central processing unit (CPU), and also the first to support heterogeneous computing via using two types of CPU cores based on different microarchitectures. They are referred to as high-performance and the energy-efficiency cores, with a pair of each type of core. Apple states that it has 40% greater CPU performance and 50% greater graphics performance compared to its predecessor, the Apple A9. The Apple T2 chip is based on the A10. On May 10, 2022, the 7th generation iPod Touch was discontinued, ending production of A10 Fusion chips. iOS 15, released in 2021, was the last major software update...

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