cpu
Apple A11 Bionic
6C/6T · 2.4 GHz
Released
Sep 22, 2017
CPUSmartphoneReleased Sep 10, 2013
Apple A7
2C/2T · 1.4 GHz
Apple's first 64-bit system-on-chip, announced with the iPhone 5s on September 10, 2013. It has two Apple-designed Cyclone cores, the first ARMv8-A cores to ship in a phone, plus a 4 MB system-level cache and a PowerVR G6430 GPU. The chip runs at 1.3 GHz in the iPhone 5s, iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 3, and at 1.4 GHz in the first-generation iPad Air. It also introduced the Secure Enclave used by Touch ID.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple A7
- Segment
- Smartphone
- Generation
- A-series (A7)
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Cyclone
- Release date
- Sep 10, 2013
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 2 cores / 2 threads
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 1.40 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- 1 MB
- L3 cache
- 4 MB
- Technology (nm)
- 28 nmSamsung 28 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- PowerVR G6430Clock: 450 MHz
- Memory type
- LPDDR3-1600 (unified)1-channel
- Memory size
- 1 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8-ANEONAESSHA
- NPU
- None
OS support
- Notes
- The A7 is used only in iPhone and iPad models and runs iOS and iPadOS. It is not a Mac chip, so macOS is not supported, and Windows, ChromeOS and desktop Linux distributions are not supported either.
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