Two different A9's, in addition to the A9x

ehume

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It had been industry speculation prior to the iPhone 6S launch that Apple would be dual-sourcing the A9 and A9X from Samsung and TSMC, respectively. The A9 would have gone into iPhone 6S/6S+ and the A9X would have gone into iPad Pros, giving Samsung a large edge in volume for the A9 product family.
It was thus a surprise to find two different application processors in two otherwise identical iPhone 6S smartphones. As pictured below, there is a difference in the die size for the APL0898 (Samsung) and the APL1022 (TSMC).


Here.