Living definition
What is Apple A17 Pro (TSMC N3B 3nm)?
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- Kind
- Hardware device
- Released
- 2026-10-22
- Cohort
- hardware_device-001
Description
What it is and what it is for
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Phones and other small devices rely on a system on a chip, a single piece of silicon that packs most of a computer's key parts together, including the main processor and the graphics processor. The Apple A17 Pro is one such chip, designed by Apple and manufactured by TSMC. It launched in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max; the Wikipedia page also lists the iPad mini (7th generation) as using it. Apple describes its 6-core graphics processor as aimed at mobile gaming, and notes a dedicated AV1 decoder for more efficient, high-quality streaming video. Apple unveiled it on September 12, 2023.
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- hardware_device-001
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