Apple's CPU is very powerful, why is it so? Who designed the Apple cpu?
The processor of the Apple mobile phone is indeed very powerful. During the same period, the performance of Apple's processor is basically half a generation ahead of Qualcomm and ahead of Huawei's Kirin generation. This is determined by many reasons.
First of all, Apple's CPU is designed by itself, and it is made by , TSMC or Samsung. And Apple's processor is an independent architecture, not the ARM architecture used by Qualcomm and Huawei . You must know that before 2000, Apple owned nearly 48% of ARM's shares, but because Apple later ran out of money, it had to sell its shares in ARM. But despite this, Apple's chip design capabilities are still very good, and it is definitely not worse than ARM.
Second, Apple’s CPU is characterized by a small number of cores, but powerful core performance. Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei's CPUs generally have eight cores. This is also because the performance of a single core is not so strong, so use multiple cores to make up. The performance of one core of Apple's CPU is two better than others, so when running large-scale applications and games, Apple's CPU has a great advantage.
Third, Apple’s iOS system is also tailored for its own processors. Due to the small number of cores of Apple's CPU and weak multiplexing function, the iOS system is basically a single-task system. Although some applications can also run in the background of iOS, they are greatly restricted in terms of functionality, which allows more CPU resources to be allocated to tasks running in the foreground.In other words, Apple's CPU is equipped with iOS system, and the two can be combined to give full play to the maximum performance.
And the Android system is Google, and it is not the same chip manufacturer as Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei, etc., so the Android system and these CPUs have never been able to achieve a perfect fit. In addition, the Android system needs to take into account the running of background applications, which will waste a certain amount of CPU computing power, which results in the performance of Android phones being always inferior to Apple phones.
Finally, Apple's processor does not integrate the baseband chip, it is usually external Qualcomm or Intel baseband. Therefore, Apple's CPU is larger than Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei CPUs, and the surface of the CPU can accommodate more transistors, so the performance is stronger.
For example, Huawei's Kirin 990 5G has more than 10 billion transistors, while the A13 processor has only 8.5 billion transistors. However, Kirin 990 5G has a built-in baseband chip and NPU chip, which split some of the computing power, resulting in the performance of Kirin 9905G not as good as Apple A13. However, Apple's external baseband also has the problems of high power consumption and large heat generation. Therefore, Apple mobile phones are generally not suitable for playing games for a long time. Otherwise, the CPU will be reduced due to poor heat dissipation and the processor performance will decrease. So although Apple's processor has strong performance, it is not without its shortcomings. Although the processors of Qualcomm and Huawei are not as good as Apple in performance, they also have advantages in terms of network and power consumption.
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