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That chip would likely still be an ARM+GPU architecture, and would still be without a floating point unit (except CUDA/OpenCL code). So code could still run like a dog and burn precious battery power even faster.

All current smartphones are ARM based and have a floating-point unit. The original iphone had one, and it wasn't the first.

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