TSMC and Samsung accounts for 58.96% and 41.04% A9 chips, respectively

9/30/2015 Ahsan Zafar , Apple , iPhone , iPhone 6s , iPhone 6s Plus , processor 0 Comments

Few Day ago iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s plus both were given teardown treatment, The teardown revealed so many things iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s had under the hood, including Processor frequency and RAM, But after a deep work on comparing processors of different iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s Plus, Chipswork revealed that Apple is using two different types of Processors on same generation of iPhones.

Apple is receiving A9 chips from both TSMC and Samsung and the A9 chip made by Samsung are under 14nm process and the A9 chip from TSMC is made from the 16nm process, which is slightly bigger.

Initially it was considered that the smaller 14nm chip from Samsung is being used in iPhone 6s only and iPhone 6s Plus have the TSMC's 16nm which Until an iOS developer collected data and make the statement false.

An iOS developer Hiraku Wang created an App that finds whether your iPhone is running a Samsung's 14nm chip or TSMC's 16nm chip and he gathered result from users who have tried the App and shared it with us.

The App gathered results from nearly 2,500 iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, the data gathered by the app showed that more iPhones are running TSMC's chip then the Samsung's chip, 58.96% iPhones were using TSMC's Chip and 41.04% iPhones were having Samsung's Chip.

iPhone 6s Plus nearly have a equal split of Samsung's and TSMC's chips, but Samsung is little bit more used in iPhone 6s Plus. 58.81% of iPhone 6s Plus have Samsung's Chip and 43.19% have TSMC's Chip. While taking a look at iPhone 6s, Large number of iPhone 6s uses TSMC's 16nm chip, 78.27% iPhone 6s have TSMC  and 21.73% have Samsung's chip.

Yet there is no report shedding light on Performance differences of these two chips,  But if there would be a difference it will surely not noticeable.

You can check who's A9 Chip is your iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus by using Wang's Tool, it is an untrusted App and lead to problems, thing before installing it.

Source: Macrumors