As expected, Apple continues to improve its processors year after year. This year, that improvement has been noticed especially in the iPad Pro processor, A9X that, in addition to being very fast and powerful, so powerful that it surpasses those used by many computers with an Intel processor, it also includes a great design work. Its size, much larger than the A9 used by the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, regardless of whether they have been manufactured by TSMC or Samsung, is something that helps, of course.
The A9X has a 40% larger size than the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, something that is possible thanks to the extra size of the iPad Pro and the smaller batteries (in relation) than those it should carry, something that has come to disappoint when looking at the specifications of the tablet , although it is also true that there has not yet been news of users who complain about a low autonomy of the professional tablet of the company directed by Tim Cook.
In addition to size, the A9X has a Dual core CPU and a 12-cluster GPU. The two CPU cores, as Chipworks' Dick James tells us, can be seen in the green square and he believes that in each blue square there are two GPU clusters, making the total of the 12 mentioned. On the other hand, the A9X does not have the 8MB of cache that the A9 of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have, something for which it is still speculating what could be the reason for this absence.
The power, efficiency and great design work of the A9X only makes us think that in the not too distant future, Apple computers will also use their own processors. Most likely, they will be manufactured by Intel in that hypothetical future, but it will be Apple who designs them in California, as we can read behind any iPhone.
