Apple and the Transistor-gate

In case you haven’t heard, recent tests conducted on a batch of Apple 6Ses have indicated that there is a difference in performance between individual sets. On Thursday, Apple finally decided to comment on the issue and come clear about the discrepancies being observed. So if you have your credit card and all those cables and content transfer apps ready to make the switch to the brand new iPhone, you might want to hold it in a bit longer.

According to Apple, some iPhone 6Ses have better battery life than others. And this is because Apple used two different chip makers to produce the processors in the handsets. The company said in its official statement that it has used a TSMC-built 16nm A9 processors, which is expected to have a slightly better battery life, in some 6Ses, and a Samsung-built 14nm A9 CPUs. However, Apple added that the difference is a lot less significant than what the reports suggested.

It is not unheard of for hardware makers to reduce the transistor gate size in order to increase clock speed and performance, without directing too much current towards the gates. However, one of the downsides of going small is the leak in current that occurs when the gates are not doing anything, especially if the chipmaker is not using mitigating technology like FinFET designs. However, compared to TMNC’s 16nm, Samsung’s 14nm is not working out. The difference in performance is not significant (at least not enough to be reported by any of the benchmarks.

Apple stated that its “testing and customer data show the actual battery life of the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, even taking into account variable component differences, varies within just 2-3 per cent of each other”.

The difference was noted by eagle-eyed researchers who discovered that two different companies had manufactured the A9 CPUs used in the iPhone 6Ses and 6S Pluses.  IF you are using Android phone and If have got new iPhone 6s you can use apps like SmartIO to transfer content like Contacts,Pictures,Videos and more from old Android phone or iPhone 5s .While the handsets (within each model) are otherwise identical, it was later revealed that they had varying chipset makers that used different techniques to fabricate the processor. This factor, according to the reports, has resulted in a difference of as much as seven percent. Apple says the number can’t be more that 2 or 3 , which is endorsed by many content transfer companies around the world.

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