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Apple’s new A8 processor will power console-like 3D mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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CUPERTINO, CALIF. — Apple’s new iPhone 6 has an A8 processor that promises to deliver high-end 3-D graphics for games without draining your battery life.

Apple showed off what the A8 processor can do by showing a game, Super Evil Megacorp’s Vain Glory, on a new iPhone 6 Plus today at its press event introducing the new smartphone. The A8 combines a graphics processor and dual CPUs on a single chip. It has 2 billion transistors, or basic on-off switches, on one piece of silicon. It is built with a 20-nanometer manufacturing process, one of the most modern technologies available today. That gives it better battery life too.

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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.