Apple A14
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Apple A14
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| Designer | Apple |
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| Introduced | September 2020 (iPad Air 4); iPhone 12 October 2020 |
| Process | 5 nm (TSMC — industry first) |
| CPU | 6-core: 2 Firestorm + 4 Icestorm |
| GPU | 4-core Apple GPU |
| Neural Engine | 16-core Neural Engine (11T ops/s) |
| Devices | iPhone 12 generation · iPad Air 4 · iPad (10th) |
| Predecessor | Apple A13 |
| Successor | Apple A15 |
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The Apple A14 Bionic was the first 5-nanometer chip in any consumer device, debuting in the iPad Air in September 2020 and the iPhone 12 generation a month later — 11.8 billion transistors, a Neural Engine doubled to sixteen cores, and the design that, widened to eight performance cores, became the M1 that ended Intel Macs.
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The A14/M1 siblinghood revealed the program's endgame: one architecture spanning phone to desktop. Its Firestorm core remains the reference point reviewers used to measure the entire industry's multi-year catch-up.