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Does that mean eventually it will be ALL FaceID ? Because I dont see iPhone X getting to iPhone 8 Price Point next year. Or would Apple continue to keep Touch ID.

Also FaceID seems like perfect for Mac and Macbook. I wonder when will those come.

It is odd, because Apple no longer buys NAND and RAM in spot prices any more. And it is hard to imagine the contract prices expires just in a few months.

I think Apple dont foresee any drop in NAND and RAM prices, so rather then wait they hike the price now. And honestly I thought the prices for iPad Pro were priced quite low, similar to Apple Watch S3 LTE. Sometimes i dont get Apple pricing.

Huge!. In A10, you dont get to choose ( Well you can but let simplify things here ) which core to go. So despite there are 2+2 Core, there is only "2" Core active at any time, depending on work load.

Now it has 2 + 4 Core, and you can program to use them all at the same time. If done correctly this is much better then SMT / Hyper threading.

But previously the 2+2 Core was done because there is a believe that programmers shouldn't and wont know which one to use. That is why there is a Hardware Switch to automatically choose which Core to use on the fly. Even Linus thinks this is a better way to handle it rather then the big.LITTLE implementation.

Now they have gone back, I wonder why, there must be very good reason behind this, Automatic Compiler optimization? Still having a hardware switch in place? Contention?

Note: One thing i would like to point out, ARM were never keen on SMT. It added complexity to the uArch and lots of testing needs to be done to get things right. And in modern SoC the actual size of the CPU core are already tiny compared to SRAM and GPU, it doesn't make sense to add all this to complexity for extra performance per transistor count.