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Apple has revealed the chip that will power its new 2019 iPhones: the A13 Bionic. And as you’d expect, the company is wasting no time in explaining that it’s the most powerful silicon ever to grace the inside of a smartphone — just as it has every year for the past three years.
“The A13 Bionic is the fastest CPU ever in a smartphone,” Apple just said onstage, adding that it also has “the fastest GPU in a smartphone,” too. But it’s not providing many details about how much faster quite yet, only providing these vague, unlabeled graphs for comparison:
Maybe later in the presentation? We’re learning more about what it can do right now, and we’ll be updating soon.
For comparison’s sake, how did Apple brag about previous chips? Let’s take a…