Why Are Apple's Chips Called Bionic?

What does the term 'Bionic' really mean? Why did Apple suddenly start naming their chips this way? There is a difference between a regular chip and one named bionic. That's what I wanted to discuss in this video.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:35 The Name
1:03 Apple's History
1:44 The A7 Chip
2:28 Apple A10 Fusion
4:17 Apple A11 Bionic
5:50 Discontinuation
6:37 iPads
7:15 Conclusion

[oneminutewonder]

Because marketing hype sells phones and electronics. Simple as that, just like people like the fact that Qualcomm calls their chips Snapdragon. It sounds cool so people are more likely to buy them.

[edwardmupenda]

Actually Bionic refers to the neural engine which is used for artificial intelligence, that was the year they added the first neural engine mainly for faceID.

[peanutbutterpancake]

A11 is not quad core, you can even see here at 4:25 that is has 2 performance and 4 efficiency cores. Also the Bionic name is due to the addition of the neural engine, the word bionic combines biology and techlology and therefore is refrencing the neural engine which is dedicated hardware that accelorates machine learing tasks

[WyvernVin]

I always assumed the ‘bionic’ was a reference to the advanced biometric features like the face id.

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[MissionControlTet]

I disagree, it all back to what “Bionic” even means

Bionic means Biologically-inspired Engineering. What separates A11 and subsequent chips from the others is the inclusion of Neural Engine, which Machine Learning hardware designed to accelerate machine learning tasks that usually only living creatures are able to perform, hence “Bionic”.

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[AndroEmu_Clips]

bionic comes from mainly Neural Engine for Machine learning ... A11 had first dual core neural engine able to do 600 billion operations per second, remarkable technology for FACE ID and Touch Id back then, however in next year Neural Engine was updated to 8 Cores which had more efficiency and could do almost nearly 1.8 trillion operation (not sure) it was same in A13 bionic with more efficiency means 8 core but in A14 and A15 the 16 core Neural Engine was breakthrough with nearly 15 trillion operations per second in A15 ... many may ask why Neural Engine is even a technology and what's it's job anyway, well mostly it makes the Cpu, Gpu processing more efficient and organised, ,, also it can do much more like help in image processing, implement touch id and face id better, live text, background remove from pictures, lookup pictures and Apple should give developers to get more access on using Neural Engines power for better integration of apps with hardware through machine learning which they have started already ... there are machine learning hardwares in other smartphone chipsets too bt apple is definately leading here near competetor being Qualcom !

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[SergioWolf]

Apple started using a Standard ARM Architecture, and on the IPhone 5s changed this with the Cyclone, and even the iPhone 7 the Architecture was the same with few Changes, on the IPhone 8 we had the implementation of the Neural Engine and the Change of the GPU with a TBDR Architecture, Apple needed more Energy Efficiency in its Chipsets, and the change of Architecture was fundamental. Today Apple is more modest changing few things, so as not to sacrifice the autonomy of the devices, always looking for Energy Efficiency, everything that is Too expensive in terms of Energy I see Apple discarding, so we do not yet see Ray Trancing in A Series Chipset, Apple is waiting for a change in Lithography to make an implementation without an expensive energy cost.

[kohakkanuva]

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[davidsg]

Well I noticed that before the A10 Fusion they’re GPU weren’t made by Apple, but after the release of the A10 Fusion, The GPU is the same as the CPU