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Apple says its A10 Fusion is most powerful chip ever for a smartphone

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Apple announced a new processor, the A10 Fusion, for its new iPhone 7 smartphone.

Speaking on stage at Apple’s iPhone 7 event in San Francisco, Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, said, “The A10 Fusion is the most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.” Take that, Samsung. (Or maybe Samsung is fabricating it?).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.