Apple Silicon – Apple “A3” S5L8920/22 chip specs

This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A3” Samsung S5L8720 chip.

Name: “Apple A3”

MFG: Samsung

Released: June 8th, 2009 and
September 9th, 2009

Codename: APL0298 or
APL2298

Part Number: S5L8920 or
S5L8922 (APL2298)

Fabrication Process:
S5L8920 – 65nm
S5L8922 – 45nm

Transistor Count: –

CPU ISA: Arm v7

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RAM Information:

Memory Bus Width: 32-Bit

Total channels: 1 Channel

Bit per channel: 32 bit

Memory Type:
200 MHz LP DDR-400

~Bandwidth: 1.6 GB/s

Capacities: 256 MB

CPU Information:

# of Performance Cores: 1

P-Core clock: 600 MHz

# of Efficiency Cores:

E-Core clock:

Overall Cores: 1

P-L1i Cache: 32 KB per-core
• P-L1i Total: 32 KB •

P-L1d Cache: 32 KB per-core
• P-L1d Total: 32 KB •

E-L1i Cache:
• E-L1i Total: – •

E-L1d Cache:
• E-L1d Total: – •

P-Core L2 Cache: 256 KB
• P-Core L2 Total: 256 KB •

E-Core L2 Cache:
• E-Core L2 Total: – •

System lvl Cache:

Graphics Information:

GPU Cores: 1

SIMD EU: 2

FP32 ALU: 16

GPU Clock: 200 MHz

FP32 (FLOPS): 6.4 GFLOPS

AI Cores:

AI OPS:

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iDevices Chip was in:

  • iPhone 3GS (APL0298)
    .
  • iPod touch 3rd Gen
    (APL2298)

 


Source: (Apple Silicon, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon, September 30th, 2025.)

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