Overwhelming new processing power
THE Apple iPhone XS Max camera can capture and analyse more than 50 different facial muscle movements and in real time put them to life in one of more than a dozen different Animoji.
It’s probably not something you will use every day but watching them come to life is a lot of fun to start with.
Even more fun, though, is Memoji. You can create your own Animoji to reflect your own look and personality – or perhaps how you might want to look.
You can change skin colour, face type, facial features, hair, glasses, ears, and so on.
Powering all this technology is the A12 Bionic, which features a six-core fusion architecture with two performance cores that are up to 15 per cent faster than the CPU performance cores in the A11 Bionic chip.
The new performance controller works dynamically to divide the load across the cores, harnessing all six when a power boost is needed.
Apple says the the four-core graphics processing unit is up to 50 per cent faster with lossless memory compression bringing gains in games, video editing and visually demanding apps.
The new iPhone’s neural engine is designed for advanced machine learning in everything from photography to augmented reality.
The processing power is staggering. Apple says it can complete up to 5 trillion operations per second compared to 600 billion in A11 Bionic.
This enables faster ARKit, Memoji, and stage light using real-time machine learning.