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Apple A12
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Apple A12
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| Designer | Apple |
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| Introduced | September 2018 (iPhone XS/XR) |
| Process | 7 nm (TSMC — industry first) |
| CPU | 6-core: 2 Vortex + 4 Tempest |
| GPU | 4-core Apple GPU |
| Neural Engine | 8-core Neural Engine (5T ops/s) |
| Devices | iPhone XS · iPhone XS Max · iPhone XR · iPad Air 3 · iPad mini 5 · Apple TV 4K (2nd) |
| Predecessor | Apple A11 |
| Successor | Apple A13 |
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The Apple A12 Bionic led the industry to 7 nanometers in September 2018, powering the iPhone XS generation and the record-selling iPhone XR. Its Neural Engine leapt from two cores to eight — 600 billion to five trillion operations per second in one year — the surge behind Smart HDR and the pivot to computational photography.
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The A12 generation defined the modern spec floor: it carried seven years of iOS releases (through iOS 18), its A12X/A12Z iPad Pro variants previewed the Mac-class ambitions realized in M1, and its process lead began the TSMC-node-first pattern Apple has held since.
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