World, prepare yourself for the next-generation iPhone.
The iPhone 5S is almost entirely redesigned on the inside, with the most notable change coming in the form of a new A7 processor. The A7 Apple-built ARM CPU will have a native 64-bit kernel, libraries and drivers. The tech specs seem quite impressive: 2x general purpose registers, 2x floating point registers, over 1 billion transistors and 100 square mm die size.
In fact, it has twice the transistors as the A6 at roughly the same size. Still, the processor will run 32-bit and 64-bit apps.
According to Apple, the processor is more than twice as fast as the A6, with a 40x CPU performance bump. Graphics are said to be 56x faster.
The phone also has a brand new part called the M7, which is a motion sensor. It works alongside the A7 to continuously monitor motion from the gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass. This is meant to usher in a new generation of health and fitness apps, notes Phil Schiller, who mentioned that Nike would be building a new app leveraging this new architecture.
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