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Apple is about to launch the next-generation iPhone 14 series in the fall, with the performance that leads the Android camp. How strong will the A16, which will debut this year, be? Jason Cross, senior editor of foreign media “Macworld”, initially predicted the level of upgrade that Apple may bring through various information.
Comprehensive foreign media reports pointed out that Apple will distinguish the chip grades for the first time in the iPhone 14 series. The entry-level iPhone 14 and 14 Plus will only be equipped with the improved version of the A15, which will continue to use similar performance to the previous generation. Only the high-end version of the Pro model, Can enjoy the upgrade brought by the A16 chip.
It is reported that the A16 chip will use the TSMC N4P process, which is 11% higher than the A15’s N5 process, and can improve the power efficiency by 22%. Although it has not yet entered the 3nm era, Jason Cross estimates that the A16 will have 18-20 billion units. Transistors, far more than the 15 billion of A15, are used to strengthen the neural engine, image processor, and audio and video decoding. The overall CPU improvement is estimated to be around 15%.
In addition, Jason Cross believes that the A16 will be Apple’s first processor to support the ARMv9 instruction set, which will not have much impact on the whole, and will only work on specific CPUs. The GPU may maintain the same number of cores as the A15, mainly through architectural improvements and LPDDR5 memory. Analysis can maintain the pace of upgrades in recent years, falling between 25-30%.
According to DigiTimes, Apple’s iPhone 14 series will be fully equipped with 6GB of memory, but the high-end iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will use the LPDDR5 specification, which is 50% faster than the existing LPDDR4X. Jason Cross said that although not It will make the actual operation faster, but it can gain more breathing space for image processing and other work.
Jason Cross emphasized that it is more difficult to predict the A16 chip this year than in previous years, because Apple has not yet entered the new node of the 3nm process. In addition, Apple is more diverse and complex than ever in the way and logic of chip usage.
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