Apple A6

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<div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color);">Apple A6</div>
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! class="ios-lab" | Designer
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Introduced
| class="ios-val" | September 2012 ([[iPhone 5]])
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! class="ios-lab" | Process
| class="ios-val" | 32 nm (Samsung)
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! class="ios-lab" | CPU
| class="ios-val" | Dual-core "Swift" (custom), 1.3 GHz
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! class="ios-lab" | GPU
| class="ios-val" | PowerVR SGX543MP3
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! class="ios-lab" | Devices
| class="ios-val" | [[iPhone 5]] · [[iPhone 5c]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Predecessor
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple A5]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Successor
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple A7]]
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The Apple A6 is the chip of the [[iPhone 5]] — and the beginning of Apple's custom-CPU era. Its "Swift" cores were the first Apple designed itself against the ARM instruction set rather than licensing ARM's own, doubling the [[Apple A5]]'s performance while shrinking the die.

= Legacy =

Swift proved Apple could out-design the merchant core market, staffing and confidence that made the next year's 64-bit shock possible. Every subsequent Apple CPU core — through today's M and A-series designs — continues the lineage this chip started.

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