cpu
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C/8T · 2.5 GHz
Released
Mar 25, 2020
CPUTabletReleased Mar 12, 2025
Apple A16
5C/5T · 3.5 GHz
The Apple A16 is the chip in the iPad (A16), the 11th-generation entry-level iPad announced on 4 March 2025 and released on 12 March 2025. It is a binned version of the A16 Bionic first used in the iPhone 14 Pro, with a 5-core CPU (two Everest performance cores and three Sawtooth efficiency cores), a 4-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine, and the iPad pairs it with 6 GB of LPDDR5 memory. Apple markets it simply as A16, and the iPad (A16) does not support Apple Intelligence.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple A16
- Segment
- Tablet
- Generation
- A-series (A16)
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Everest + Sawtooth
- Release date
- Mar 12, 2025
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 5 cores / 5 threadsP2+E3
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 3.46 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- 20 MB
- L3 cache
- 24 MB
- Technology (nm)
- 4 nmTSMC N4P (4 nm)
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (4-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5 (unified)
- Memory size
- Up to 6 GB
- ECC memory
- ✕ No
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.6-ANEONAMXFP16i8mmdotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 16-core Neural Engine — 17 TOPS
OS support
- Notes
- The A16 runs Apple iPadOS only. The iPad (A16) shipped with iPadOS 18 and is listed by Apple as compatible with iPadOS 27. The chip is not used in a Mac and does not run macOS, Windows or desktop Linux distributions.
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