Apple unveils A17 Pro, a 3nm chip powering iPhone 15 Pro
by Devindra Hardawar from Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics on (#6EPHB)
We figured the iPhone 15 Pro would feature some sort a new A17 chip, but Apple surprised us by debuting its first "Pro" chip today. The A17 Pro is Apple's most powerful mobile silicon yet. The 3 nanometer chip features 17 billion transistors and a six-core CPU. Apple claims its two performance cores are 10 percent faster than the A16, while its four efficiency cores offer far better performance per watt. The 6-core GPU is also 20 percent faster than before, and it features advanced graphics features like hardware accelerated ray tracing.
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