Because marketing hype sells phones and electronics. Simple as that, just like people like the fact that Qualcomm calls their chips Snapdragon. It sounds cool so people are more likely to buy them.

Actually Bionic refers to the neural engine which is used for artificial intelligence, that was the year they added the first neural engine mainly for faceID.

A11 is not quad core, you can even see here at 4:25 that is has 2 performance and 4 efficiency cores. Also the Bionic name is due to the addition of the neural engine, the word bionic combines biology and techlology and therefore is refrencing the neural engine which is dedicated hardware that accelorates machine learing tasks

I always assumed the ‘bionic’ was a reference to the advanced biometric features like the face id.

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I disagree, it all back to what “Bionic” even means Bionic means Biologically-inspired Engineering. What separates A11 and subsequent chips from the others is the inclusion of Neural Engine, which Machine Learning hardware designed to accelerate machine learning tasks that usually only living creatures are able to perform, hence “Bionic”.

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Very nice work , thank you

Thanks for taking your time to explain this, I’ve been asking these questions myself. Now at least it’s been broken down to me in a concise manner!

Apple started using a Standard ARM Architecture, and on the IPhone 5s changed this with the Cyclone, and even the iPhone 7 the Architecture was the same with few Changes, on the IPhone 8 we had the implementation of the Neural Engine and the Change of the GPU with a TBDR Architecture, Apple needed more Energy Efficiency in its Chipsets, and the change of Architecture was fundamental. Today Apple is more modest changing few things, so as not to sacrifice the autonomy of the devices, always looking for Energy Efficiency, everything that is Too expensive in terms of Energy I see Apple discarding, so we do not yet see Ray Trancing in A Series Chipset, Apple is waiting for a change in Lithography to make an implementation without an expensive energy cost.

Great historical info. Thanks

Thank god there are more people out there who remember Bionicle

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I love the editing… what do you use?(just wondering for my own channel) thanks!

Actual video starts at about "APPLE BIONIC" is at 5:15 Thanks me later

bionic comes from mainly Neural Engine for Machine learning ... A11 had first dual core neural engine able to do 600 billion operations per second , remarkable technology for FACE ID and Touch Id back then , however in next year Neural Engine was updated to 8 Cores which had more efficiency and could do almost nearly 1.8 trillion operation (not sure) ..... it was same in A13 bionic with more efficiency means 8 core but in A14 and A15 the 16 core Neural Engine was breakthrough with nearly 15 trillion operations per second in A15 ... many may ask why Neural Engine is even a technology and what's it's job anyway , well mostly it makes the Cpu,Gpu processing more efficient and organised ,,, also it can do much more like help in image processing,implement touch id and face id better,live text,background remove from pictures,lookup pictures and etc..... Apple should give developers to get more access on using Neural Engines power for better integration of apps with hardware through machine learning which they have started already ... there are machine learning hardwares in other smartphone chipsets too bt apple is definately leading here near competetor being Qualcom !

I thought it was just a naming scheme 💀 Nice video

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damn man , very nice video

Well I noticed that before the A10 Fusion they’re GPU weren’t made by Apple, but after the release of the A10 Fusion, The GPU is the same as the CPU

Simply because since the A11 Bionic Apple integrated IA core into the chip For reference the iPhone had only two cores until the iPhone 7 was out that introduced the big.LITTLE architecture The iPhone 7 had the A10 Fusion chip with 2 high performance cores and 4 high efficiency cores Then when the iPhone X (and 8/8+) was out Apple announced the A11 Bionic that has ONE neural core into used for IA task but most importantly Face ID From there every chip is a bionic chip

Biological + Electronic = Bionic In Apple idea, the chip mimick human design with an electronic device. But I don't see much difference with the non-bio competition, to be honest...

Actually Bionic came from a couple of TV series in the '80s, the Bionic Woman and the Six Million Dollar Man. Tim Cook is old enough to be aware of them.

Imagine apple start shipping iPhones with M2's, the so called "Apple Eletric Fryer"

Underrated

It's called bionic because it features what Apple called Neural Engine which enables face ID.

The A10 had fusion in the marketing

Does anyone remember the m series in iphones. Like a7 with m7 and a8 with m8 etc

BIONIC BIO - of relating anything earth materials used in the chip N - any iteration of the chip or just "in" IC - integrated circuit

I think the "bionic" name came from the addition of the neural engine which works similar to the human brain

How tf u only have 500 subs 😤

I think you are wrong, if you check "September Event 2018 - Apple" in 45:52 you will see the CPU architecture is called fusion still, the Bionic in the name actually refers to chips with the neural engine.

I have the A12 Bionic in my iPad 8

Ha ha I first thinking they added living cells into the machine just like the Starship voyager from Star Trek.😂

So does the Z mean the same thing like A12Z

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Back in the 1970's, there was a TV show called "The Bionic Woman", so the word is not new.

Sorry, this is incorrect - bionic is for BIO as in FACE ID being your BIO-METRICS - hence the iPhone X being the first phone with faceID and the first phone with the BIONIC chip

It’s because they’re fans of the hit Lego series, “Bionicle”

The Bionic name in the chip lost its meaning after the first Bionic chip, they need to make a new name everytime

Bionic means neural coprocessor. Didn’t need 7:55 to say that

You can safely skip the first 5:13 minutes of the video, don't make my mistake and save 5 minutes of yours thank me later.

Bionics: biologically inspired Engineering. Possibly LIDAR Scan Technology is considered Sensor bionics.

1:59 the photo is iPhone 5s but with iOS 6??? iPhone 5s supposed to come with iOS 7

Because it is a cool word that few know the meaning of?

Why are Qualcomm Chips Called Snapdragon?

Bionic is talking about the neural engine....

WE REMEMBER THIS FROM CHILDHOOD. THE BIONIC MAN The Six Million Dollar Man Opening and Closing Theme (With Intro) HD Surround m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZqmAfZByx6nXhGw.html

I thought bionic means the merging of living things and machine

I thought bionic means the chip having an neural engine

You sound like ZoneOfTech

Why do they call Skynet Siri?

New Chips aren’t necessarily faster There all the same Companies just make it slower making people to think that the new ones are faster but their not Same amount of speed that’s all

Why did they use “Bionic” over and over again tho?

iPhone 5s wasn’t the first phone to use a fingerprint scanner lol. It was the first iPhone to but not the first phone

Why did they add the names? prob just marketing

All good my iPad has an m1

Bionic = System On a Chip (SoC) You're welcome guys

Who’s here after m1

I had to pull up a picture of the iPhone 8 Plus…..my god what an ugly camera looking back at it 🤣

Marketing

Good luck

That is Christina Aguilera’s 4th studio album, Bionic. Stream it!

Make me your video editor......

I'm sorry to say but the term that "it isn't just marketing but a different way that the chip works" is just bs. You know why? Because it IS a marketing name! Same as for "Retina": It is no industry standard. Apple just decided to name any display that has a higher ppi than whatever value as "Retina". Other manufacturers can produce these displays as well, however they do not as this is an Apple MARKETING term! Same for the "bionic"! Furthermore, I have to tell you that what you're telling us in the video is acutally wrong. No, the reason why Apple is giving those chips the "bionic" addition is not that multiple cores could be used at the same time. This is actually the only reason why multicore makes sence, otherwise it would be completely useless. The real reason is, that it uses machine learning technologies that analyze and optimize the behaviour of the user and therefore the way the OS is working. Please do better research before producing your next video.

Cause they keep on removing features Making their phones as good as disabled so they need all those bionic prosthetics A.K.A dongles to even function properly...

I don’t like explanation and the use of the name. I think “Bionic” refers to the usage of electronics and biology.

How do you fool your customers your phone in not incrementally better but exponentially better? You simply name the processor using scientific greek terms else customers won't be spending 1500$ for a small device every 18 months year!!

I do you one better, why bionic 😄

I reckon that Bionic was for the neural engine 🤔

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