First Look Inside The A9X Chip That Powers The Ipad Pro Showing Custom Gpu
Chipworks has provided our first look inside the A9X chip that powers the iPad Pro, thanks to a die shot obtained by Motley Fool. One of the fascinating things about the incredibly small processes used for today’s chips is that even a die shot doesn’t provide a definitive answer to what is found inside one. There’s still a certain amount of interpretation involved, though both Chipworks and Motley Fool‘s chip specialist Ashraf Eassa agree on what we are looking at in the full image (below) … Eassa says that the memory interface is twice as wide as the one on the A9, explaining the absence of the cache – the chip can read & write data to RAM twice as fast, so doesn’t need it....