General information | |
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Launched | June 13, 2017 |
Discontinued | April 20, 2021 |
Designed by | Apple Inc. |
Common manufacturer(s) | |
Product code | APL1071 [2] |
Max. CPU clock rate | to 2.38 GHz [3] |
Cache | |
L1 cache | Per core: 64 KB instruction + 64 KB data [4] |
L2 cache | 8 MB shared [4] |
Architecture and classification | |
Application | Mobile |
Technology node | 10FF nm [1] |
Microarchitecture | Hurricane and Zephyr |
Instruction set | ARMv8.1-A: A64, A32, T32 |
Physical specifications | |
Cores |
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GPU(s) | 12 core [5] |
Products, models, variants | |
Variant(s) | |
History | |
Predecessor(s) | Apple A9X |
Successor(s) | Apple A12X Bionic |
The Apple A10X Fusion is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. and manufactured by TSMC. It first appeared in the 10.5" iPad Pro and the second-generation 12.9" iPad Pro which were both announced on June 5, 2017. [6] The A10X is a variant of the A10 and Apple claims that it has 30 percent faster CPU performance and 40 percent faster GPU performance than its predecessor, the A9X. [6]
The A10X features an Apple-designed 64-bit 2.38 GHz [3] ARMv8-A six-core CPU, with three high-performance Hurricane cores and three energy-efficient Zephyr cores. [5] [1] The A10X also integrates a twelve-core graphics processing unit (GPU) [5] which appears to be the same Apple customized Imagination PowerVR cores used in the A10. [7] Embedded in the A10X is the M10 motion coprocessor. [8]
Built on TSMC's 10 nm FinFET process [7] with a die size of 96.4mm2, the A10X is 34% smaller than the A9X and was the smallest iPad SoC upon its release. [1] The A10X is the first TSMC 10nm chip to be used by a consumer device. [1]
The A10X is paired with 4 GB of LPDDR4 memory in the second-generation 12.9" iPad Pro [9] and the 10.5" iPad Pro, [2] and 3 GB in the 4K Apple TV. [10]
The A10X has video codec encoding support for H.264. It has decoding support for HEVC, [11] H.264, MPEG-4, and Motion JPEG. [12]