Apple's iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark, beating PC chips and Apple's own M3 Ultra — passively-cooled A19 CPU catapults past power-hungry competitors

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Apple's latest mobile chip, the A19, has officially become the world's fastest CPU, at least in PassMark's single-threaded benchmark. It outperformed every flagship desktop processor from both Intel and AMD, as well as Apple's own M3 Ultra, while requiring less cooling and consuming significantly less power.