Leaked internal code suggests iPhone 16 series to be powered by A18 chip

The new chip might enable Apple Intelligence across the iPhone 16 lineup.

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Apple has been using different chips for different classes of iPhones for the past few years. This might change this year with the iPhone 16 series smartphones. A leaked code from Apple’s backend, as reported by MacRumors, suggested the company is looking at using the same A18 chip across the iPhone 16 models.

The leaked code also hinted that Apple might launch five new phones at the September event instead of four, the fifth being the iPhone SE, with a design similar to iPhone 14, and to be launched in early 2025. These are internally identified as iPhone17,1, iPhone17,2, iPhone17,3, iPhone17,4, and iPhone17,5.

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Last year’s iPhones were identified with different numbers: iPhone15,4, iPhone15,5, indicating the A16 Bionic on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, and iPhone16,1, iPhone16,2, indicating the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max with the A17 Pro chip.

Apple has used the iPhone15 identifier for every iPhone featuring the A16 chip, including the iPhone 14 Pro series, clearly indicating that all four iPhone 16 models will indeed use a new chip. This could help the company to enable Apple Intelligence across the iPhone 16 lineup, which is currently limited to the iPhone 15 Pro, as it requires a chip with a capable neural processing unit (NPU) and more memory.

Despite the same generation of chip, there is a possibility that the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Max might get a speed-binned A18 chip, possibly with a Pro moniker. This could also pack additional CPU and GPU cores, similar to Apple’s M series chips from iPads and Macs.

First uploaded on: 03-07-2024 at 10:21 IST

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