The A55 is an in-order, 2 wide, low performance core from 2017 that was an embarrassing choice to put in a modern SOC a couple of years ago. Compare it to Appl

The A55 is an in-order, 2 wide, low performance core from 2017 that was an embarrassing choice to put in a modern SOC a couple of years ago. Compare it to Apple's "little" Icestorm cores, which are at about the performance level of everyone else's big cores a couple of years ago. >The Icestorm design is actually a quite major leap for Apple as it sees the introduction of a third integer ALU pipeline, and a full second FP/SIMD pipeline, vastly increasing the execution capabilities of this core. At this point it would be wrong to call it a “small” core anymore as it now essentially matches the big core designs from Arm from a few years ago, being similar in complexity as an A75. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16192/the-iphone-12-review/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16192/the-iphone-12-review/2