Linley Gwennap, director of the esteemed chip industry research firm that bears his name, and editor of its newsletter, “Mobile Chip Report,” Thursday offered up an engaging analysis of Apple’s (AAPL) “A10 Fusion” processor, used in its latest iPhone, the iPhone 7.

Based on some help from chip teardown experts Chipworks, Gwennap writes that Apple’s “Hurricane,” which is one of the two different CPUs in the A10, “blows away the competition,” citing Geekbench speed tests for some typical tasks compared to benchmarks for several...