Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Apple has unveiled its ...

The Neural Engine gives the iPhone a super smart brain. Apple called the new iPhones‘ A12 Bionic chip “the smartest and most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.” And despite the company’s occasional ...

Unsurprisingly, Apple today announced its newest generation of iPhones. And with that, it also announced its new chips: the A12 Bionic. What makes the A12 Bionic stand out is that it’s built using a ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Performance improvements in the A12 Bionic chip used in the iPhone XS and the iPhone XS Max has put Apple's in-house CPU designs on a par with processors used in notebooks and computers, one extensive ...

Apple pushed boundaries with last year’s iPhone’s A12 Bionic chip. However, it seems that the company’s 2020-era iPhones is going to blow away Apple’s previous 7-nanometer A12 — with what could turn ...

In its press release, Apple boasted that its new trio of iPhones incorporate "the first 7-nanometer chip in a smartphone." Since Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM 0.59%) is the only ...

Apple's new iPhones come with a fresh chip called the A12 Bionic. The company says it's the industry's first 7-nanometer chip and contains 6.9 billion transistors. That statement is true, to an extent ...

On Sept. 21, Apple 's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max finally hit store shelves. Inside of these devices (as well as the iPhone XR, a lower-cost iPhone that's slated to become available on ...

On Sept. 21, Apple's (AAPL 2.21%) iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max finally hit store shelves. Inside of these devices (as well as the iPhone XR, a lower-cost iPhone that's slated to become available on Oct ...

At its Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm outlined its new 855, a chip it hopes will power the next generation of premium Androids. It addresses silicon work Apple has driven in its Application ...

Apple has announced its latest iPad models without any sort of fanfare. The fifth generation iPad Mini and iPad Air were both announced via a press release by the US company. The surprise package is ...