How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor?

Re:How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor? by jwells89 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:53PM (#38062048)

For me there’s some benefit in little things like on-device OCR and image classification, which has been helpful for quickly surfacing particular photos in my library but yes the broad strokes have not changed much.

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Re:How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor? by throwaway4good on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:24PM (#38062381)

I am wondering about this; I have noticed the OCR (that you can photo something and the copy the text as plain text). How compute sensitive is that? Is that not available on the X?

It is a useful feature. In particular in Google translate (lens function) which I am pretty was also there on the X (perhaps requiring a trip to Google’s server).

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Re:How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor? by jwells89 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:30PM (#38062436)

I’m not sure if it’s available on the X or not, but it would make a lot of sense if a certain level of hardware acceleration is required to do this OCR in the background with little to no negative impact on battery life. The X’s SoC can probably handle one-offs just fine, but it might not hold up as well to the OS churning through photos OCRing them in the background.

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