iPhone 6s comes with two dissimilar A9 Chips, namely from TSMC and Samsung

9/30/2015 , , , , , , 0 Comments

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Sometime before the official launch of the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus, several reports were claiming that  both manufactures Samsung and TSMC were developing the A9 chipset for the Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. 

Thus there was a sort of befuddlement over how the split would work, because the both companies Samsung and TSMC used different technologies. Samsung was said to manufacture chips through the 14-nanometer process while on the other hand TSMC was rumored to be using the 16-nanometer process. 

After doing numerous teardowns of the iPhone 6s the folks at Chipworks have confirmed that the devices do have chips from both TSMC and Samsung for sure.  For comparison, the die size of TSMC processor is fairly larger than the die size of the processor made by Samsung. 
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The chipset "APL0898"made by Samsung measures in at 96 square millimetres, while the chipset" APL1022" measures in at 104.5 square millimetres which manufactured by TSMC. 

Moreover, Apple took the decision of sourcing chipsets from both TSMC and Samsung due to "major sourcing problems", says Chipworks. Apple has adopted several policies to for the prevention of manufacturing issue that can lead to delays. 

Yet we are not sure that whether the difference in the size of chipsets will affect the performance of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. But thankfully,  Chipworks has already planned to test out if there is a difference of performance in both chipsets from Samsung and TSMC. 

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