Before the official presentation of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus remained a day and a half. On the eve of the announcement of the resource Wccftech has published photos, which show a single-chip platform is the Apple A9, which will serve as the basis of these devices.
The Apple’s A9 processor is a proprietary of Apple and produced at the facilities of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Samsung. System on a chip of the previous generation A8 in full produced by TSMC. In the case of a new platform TSMC received only 40% of orders for new SoC for the iPhone, and the rest went to Samsung. This explains the cooperation with the South Korean manufacturer GoldenFoundries and use of more advanced 14-nm process.
According to some reports, the 14-nm technology Samsung largely satisfied with Apple in terms of energy efficiency and cost than promoted by TSMC a bunch of “16 nm + FinFET”. In TSMC sure that the Koreans managed to beat them for the theft of trade secrets archive.
Meanwhile, “spy” photo you can also see the chip’s flash memory, which will be used in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. Unfortunately, the image quality does not allow to read the label.
In addition to the new processor, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will receive a 12-megapixel camera, a display with 3D Touch, 2 GB of RAM.