Talk:Apple silicon

Additional Information for S Series Chips

We can use the ARM ISAs based on the efficiency cores from the main A series CPUs. So ARM v8.4A for S6-S8, ARM v8.6A for S9 and S10.

Additionally, again because we know S4-S5 are all based on Apple A12 CPU, S6-S8 are all based on the Apple A13 CPU, and S9 and S10 are based on the Apple A16 CPU, we can confidently say that the memory used will be:

S4-S8: LPDDR4X (A12, A13 and A14 all used it) S9-S10: LPDDR5 (A16 uses it)

We can also work out the GPU used on each of them.

Since we know that "G11M" stands for Generation 11, which was used on the S4 and S5 piece of silicon, we can then use that to work out that each A Series Generation since then has increased the Generation by 1. So we could confidently say that G12M in S6-S8, and G15M in S9 and S10. WallaceKerner (talk) 23:02, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 July 2025

Please consider implementing the Sticky_header option for the table that does a comparison of the M-series chips.

It would be more usable so we didn't have to scroll up to the top to see what property we are looking at. Forcing the first column would be nice as well so to see what chip we are looking at.

Thanks for your consideration. Geopoliticus Child (talk) 16:25, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done did the same for A-series chip. Forcing the first column did cause some issues with colspans, if that's an issue I can partially revert— 🪫Volatile ^{📲T | ⌨️C} 04:40, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

References

Number of AI Accelerator Cores in table for M3 Ultra

According to Apple, M3 Ultra has a 32-core neural engine. Table still shows 16. 154.160.0.130 (talk) 12:28, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

S-series articles

If the articles Apple S1 and Apple S2 are notable, shouldn’t there be separate articles for the other S-series chips? It just confuses me that the S1 and S2 chips have their own articles but that the other chips don't.

What, if any, is the reason for that? TwoGamer1000 (Edits) 06:36, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Lack of interest, maybe. An article is there when one or more Wikipedians create it. S1 might have had its article because the idea of having an (essentially) stripped-down iOS running on a watch is novel and interesting to people at the time. S3 and later are basically just incremental updates without much to write about, so whatever few paragraphs describing them can just be part of this article. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 06:45, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Fair enough. So if the S1 and S2 have articles, do they have enough notability to warrant an article? TwoGamer1000 (Edits) 15:06, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Possibly. If anyone thinks it's too short for a standalone article, one can start a merge discussion in the talk page. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 20:49, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

True. TwoGamer1000 (Edits) 21:39, 5 June 2026 (UTC)