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Apple A6
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Apple A6
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| Designer | Apple |
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| Introduced | September 2012 (iPhone 5) |
| Process | 32 nm (Samsung) |
| CPU | Dual-core "Swift" (custom), 1.3 GHz |
| GPU | PowerVR SGX543MP3 |
| Devices | iPhone 5 · iPhone 5c |
| Predecessor | Apple A5 |
| Successor | 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.
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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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