| A | B |
|---|---|
| The A7 processor | … |
| General information | … |
| Launched | September 20, 2013 (APL0698) November 1, 2013 (APL5698) |
| Discontinued | March 21, 2016 (APL5698) March 21, 2017 (APL0698) |
| Designed by | Apple Inc. |
| Common manufacturer | • Samsung 1 |
| Product code | S5L8960X23 |
| Performance | … |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 1.3 GHz4 to 1.4 GHz5 |
| Physical specifications | … |
| Cores | • 2 4 |
| GPU | PowerVR G6430 (quad-core)6 |
| Cache | … |
| L1 cache | Per core: 64 KB instruction + 64 KB data7 |
| L2 cache | 1 MB shared7 |
| L3 cache | 4 MB5 |
| Architecture and classification | … |
| Application | Mobile |
| Technology node | 28 nm1 |
| Microarchitecture | Cyclone7 |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A:89 A64, A32, T32 |
| History | … |
| Predecessors | Apple A6 (iPhone) Apple A6X (iPad) |
| Successors | Apple A8 (iPhone) Apple A8X (iPad) |
Apple A7
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Footnotes
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Tanner, Jason; Morrison, Jim; James, Dick; Fontaine, Ray; Gamache, Phil (September 20, 2013). “Inside the iPhone 5s”. Chipworks. Archived from the original on August 3, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2013. ↩ ↩2
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Gurman, Mark (July 31, 2013). “Apple’s upcoming A7 iPhone chip will have Samsung components, code inside iOS 7 reveals”. 9to5Mac. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2013. ↩
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Klug, Brian (October 24, 2013). “iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina Display include Qualcomm’s MDM9615 baseband”. AnandTech. Archived from the original on November 27, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013. It isn’t news, but I’ve also confirmed that there are the appropriate references to Apple’s S5L8960X SoC (otherwise known as Apple’s A7) in the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display software bundles, same as the iPhone 5s. ↩
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Lal Shimpi, Anand (September 17, 2013). “The iPhone 5s Review: A7 SoC Explained”. AnandTech. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013. ↩ ↩2
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Lai Shimpi, Anand (October 29, 2013). “The iPad Air Review: iPhone to iPad: CPU Changes”. AnandTech. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013. ↩ ↩2
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Lal Shimpi, Anand (September 17, 2013). “The iPhone 5s Review: GPU Architecture”. AnandTech. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013. ↩
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Lal Shimpi, Anand (September 17, 2013). “The iPhone 5s Review: After Swift Comes Cyclone”. AnandTech. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Lal Shimpi, Anand (September 17, 2013). “The iPhone 5s Review: The Move to 64-bit”. AnandTech. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013. ↩
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Lattner, Chris (September 10, 2013). “[LLVMdev] A7 processor support?”. llvm-dev (Mailing list). Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2017. ↩