Apple had a head start with the Face ID technology in the iPhone, and from the inability of the Android companies in front of it, they began to promote the "face image" technology as "the face print" and a difference between them, as we explained earlier -this link-. And recently, news spread that Apple intends to make a new breakthrough by introducing the most advanced processor ever. And that is with the next iPhone processor, which is expected to be issued with 7 nm technology and not the current 10 nm technology.

Simply what is a nanometer?

We hear a lot about nanometer technology, but most of us don't know what it really is or what it is. In short, the nanometer is a unit for measuring infinitesimal lengths and dimensions, which is a part of a millionth of a millimeter, and it is used to deal with atomic assemblies, which are dimensions much less than the dimensions of bacterial assemblages and a living cell !!

What is the relationship of these very small "nanometer" distances to the power and performance of the processor?

The process of manufacturing a processor requires placing a number of transistors next to each other on the silicon chip. The nanometer is the number that indicates the distance between these transistors. And transistors are what control the implementation of required operations in any electronic device. Thus, the more transistors there are, the faster and stronger the device will perform in carrying out the tasks assigned to it.

For comparison, the Apple A9 processor was working with 20nm technology, it contained 2 billion transistors, and when Apple moved to 10nm technology in the iPhone X with the A11 processor, it came with 4.3 billion transistors, meaning the number of transistors became doubled, but in view of the performance, it became 4 times!

Official details of the upcoming iPhone processors

Last April, TSMC Taiwan, the largest manufacturer of chips and semiconductors in the world, said it had started producing large quantities of Apple processors for the next generation of iPhones, 2018, that support 7 nm technology.

It is expected that Apple will call the A12 processors that support this technology. And compared to processors that use 10 nm technology, "meaning the gap between transistors is 10 nm," a 7-nm processor will be smaller, faster and more efficient by at least 20%. It reduces the area by 37% and increases by 1.6 times the density of the panel. Not only that, but the A12 processor will use 40% less energy than the current processors, and some reports have indicated that the battery iPhone X may be 10% larger than last year's model. Thus, phones continue to work for a longer period before they are recharged. And Apple has already started eliminating the battery problem. And it's something that the tech industry has been working on for years.

Thus, Apple is considered one of the first smart phone companies to use 7-nanometer technology in consumer devices on a large scale. Samsung is currently working to add this technology on a large scale in its upcoming phones next year, and it is said that Qualcomm will announce the beginning of next year for the SD855 processor with 7nm technology. But each company has its own way and exact specifications in the manufacturing process, and it is no secret to everyone that Apple introduces its own product.

It is worth noting that Samsung has manufactured the iPhone chips in the past and shared production with TSMC in the A9 chip in the iPhone 6s. Apple then turned to TSMC, in partnership with SoC ever since.

What about the new Huawei Kirin 980?

In theory, Huawei announced the 980Kirin processor, which works with 7nm technology as well, and the company boasted of it, but yesterday a new scandal appeared for Huawei, which is that its processor and the phone has a feature to deceive tests where the phone recognizes that it is being tested and thus works better than normal and specialized authorities bypassing this deception They were surprised that the performance of the actual processor and power consumption is almost competing with the SD845, which is basically not the lowest performance in the majority of tests (not all but the majority) of the current Apple A11 processor, so what about the A12, which will present to the world a real example of how the performance of a 7nm processor. Incidentally, Huawei has already admitted that it deceives the testing applications, but it justified this by saying that these applications are not really representative.

By introducing this new technology, Apple has made another huge leap in smart phone processors this year in its own way, leaving behind those who are panting to catch up.

Do you expect the A12 to come out with a huge and impressive edge over its competitors? Or will Qualcomm be able to catch up with the SD855 processor at the beginning of the year?

Sources:

wccftech | the verge | bloomberg | cultfmac | news18 | 9to5mac

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