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Monday, September 15, 2014 6:24:07 AM
For mad Nenni that was almost a sane post 
. I have never bought the idea that Apple would dual-source its A chips. It is too much trouble to try and fit different processes just for one year's iteration. You would expect TSMC to get A9 as 16FF is an incremental step from their 20nm. Coincidentally I think Intel has a good chance of getting the successor A10 with its 10nm as that will be coming a year later than 16FF while the foundries twiddle their thumbs in 2016 just rolling out 14/16FF. Intel's 10nm will allow Apple to jump to quad-core and still improve single-thread performance over 16F.
Broxton (or whatever it's called now) is not cancelled which is a foolish thing to say as it is the next-gen Android performance successor to Merrifield but then again he could not be relied upon to make a completely sane post.
. I have never bought the idea that Apple would dual-source its A chips. It is too much trouble to try and fit different processes just for one year's iteration. You would expect TSMC to get A9 as 16FF is an incremental step from their 20nm. Coincidentally I think Intel has a good chance of getting the successor A10 with its 10nm as that will be coming a year later than 16FF while the foundries twiddle their thumbs in 2016 just rolling out 14/16FF. Intel's 10nm will allow Apple to jump to quad-core and still improve single-thread performance over 16F. Broxton (or whatever it's called now) is not cancelled which is a foolish thing to say as it is the next-gen Android performance successor to Merrifield but then again he could not be relied upon to make a completely sane post.
