Apple’s A13 Chip is Codenamed Cebu, According to Rumor

When it comes to mobile chips, Apple is undefeated. The Cuppertino giant’s investment into building its own custom silicon has given it a huge lead over competing chips in the space.

Apple is looking to maintain that lead with the next chip for iPhone – A13. The codename of which we now know, thanks to a leak by Longhorn over on Twitter.

The A13 is called Cebu, and Thunder and Lightning being the codenames for its cores.

We know that the A13 will be built on TSMC’s 7nm process after TSMC won the bid to manufacture Apple’s next chip. The A12 chip was also built on TSMC’s 7nm process, it gave Apple a headstart over Huawei who had its own Kirin 980 chip in the pipeline.

In terms of performance, Apple is known to showcase noteworth gains over previous generation, even on the same manufacturing process. We can expect a more refined version of the current 7nm process with the A13, which should give it better energy efficiency over the A12 Bionic.

The A12 Bionic holds a significant lead over the best the competition has to offer. It’s so fast, in fact, that it ventures into notebook CPU territory. That lead is only going to stay in Apple’s favor with A13.

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