If the Apple A7 processor remained at a rate around 1.4 GHz, while processors for Android flirt with 2 GHz, Asian sources suggest that the next Apple A8 processor could also move to 2 GHz.

The mystery is still almost complete on the Apple A8 processor which will follow the Apple A7, first massively distributed mobile processor to provide a 64-bit compatibility. While Samsung was the sole supplier of Apple, it would be this year in part produced by the Taiwanese foundry TSMC, indicating a desire for diversification of suppliers from the group of Cupertino.

It should be dual core (with perhaps a change in the Cyclone core) and continue the momentum of the 64-bit compatibility, but source among the suppliers of components, the rate of cores could be increased to 2 GHz on the iPhone 6, and perhaps even a little higher for the version of the Apple A8 for the next generation of iPad Air 2 tablet.

Apple A8 chip

Etching 20 nm node should provide a significant gain in terms of performance and energy consumption compared to Apple A7 processor, but as always, Apple is very discreet about the characteristics of its mobile processors.