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Apple A7 chipset brings 64-bit, twice the speed, OpenGL ES 3.0 gaming

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW APPLE A7 SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP WITH 64-BIT ARMV8 ARCHITECTURE FOR TWICE THE SPEED, TWICE THE GRAPHICS, TWICE THE REGISTERS, AND OPENGL ES 3.0 FOR EVEN GREATER GAMING! At the heart of every iPhone 5s beats an Apple A7 system-on-a-chip (SOC). That's the term for a central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and other components like random-access memory (RAM) spun together into a single, integrated chip. The big news is that the Apple A7 is twice as fast at both general purpose and graphics processing as its predecessor, the Apple A6, yet remains roughly the same size. The bigger news is that the Apple A7 is 64-bit, and the first 64-bit processor crafted for a consumer smartphone, and that it supports OpenGL ES 3.0, and comes with a companion chip, the M7 motion coprocessor. Note: There's not a lot of real information available on the Apple A7 yet. Apple hasn't released much and they probably never will. It's not the