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While we await more details on Apple Silicon and the upcoming iPad Air, Apple executives Tim Millet and Tom Boger recently joined Relay FM’s Upgrade podcast to discuss the Mac and iPad lineups, including details on the A14 processor, how it works. use iPad internally at Apple. , and much more.
Millet serves as Apple’s vice president of platform architecture, while Boger is the company’s senior director of Mac and iPad product marketing. On the new Touch ID functionality of the iPad Air, Boger explained:
One of the goals of the iPad Air is to make some of these great technologies more accessible. What we wanted to do was bring that new design to the iPad Air, that Liquid Retina display, make the screen spread out on all sides, and with this iPad Air we decided to design Touch ID directly on the top button. It is a truly incredible feat of engineering.
On the new 5nm process used for the A14 chip, Millet explained:
It is a great victory for us because it allows us to fit more transistors in a similar space. What this allows us to do is offer more functions, which in many cases also allows us to improve the energy efficiency of the solution, because we can extend and run the clocks a little slower at a lower voltage. That translates to less energy use.
Things like a GPU, for example, we can upgrade the GPU, we can run those four cores at lower voltage and still deliver amazing performance. We can also take those same transistors and increase the voltage and increase the performance of that GPU, much more for short periods of time when a game demands something really nimble.
The full interview with Boger and Millet is worth listening to for more details on Apple Silicon and the iPad line. You can listen to Upgrade on the Relay FM website or subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts.
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