10:36 am System-on-a-chip A7 64-bit chip, first ever on a smartphone.
10:37 am Twice as many transistors for same physical space as the A6.
10:38 am iOS 7 updated for 64-bit. Native kernel, libraries and drivers, all built-in apps re-engineered.
10:38 am Full Xcode support, backwards compatible. "Benefits are huge." CPU and graphics are twice as fast. CPU is 40x faster than original iPhone, with half coming with jump between A6 and A7.
10:39 am OpenGL ES 3.0, up to 56x faster graphics performance than the original iPhone.
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