The iPhone 6 will have a new co-processor code-named “Phosphorus”, dedicated to motion and health data

It's another day, another iPhone leak here at Phone Arena, and this time the word is that the upcoming iPhone 6's A8 processor will have a new pal to share additional processing with. The iPhone 5s's M7 motion co-processor will be succeeded by a new chip code-named "Phosphorus".



Coming across as a more powerful successor to the M7, it will be tasked with processing health data such as heart rate, burned calories, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar for Apple's new HealthKit platform, on top of the usual motion processing. It is said that the Health app can obtain said data manually (with ...