Apple is expected to release the new iPhone 14 series of mobile phones this fall, and bring a new generation of processor A16 Bionic, but in addition to rumors that only the iPhone 14 Pro series will use the new processor, it has recently been reported that the A16 Bionic’s The process will stop at the 5nm node.
▲ The picture shows the iPhone 14 Pro color rendering provided by Jon Prosser.
The whistleblower ShrimpApplePro said on Twitter that the news pointed out that the Apple A16 Bionic processor will maintain the TSMC 5nm process node, the performance of the CPU and LPDDR5 will be slightly upgraded, and the GPU will also have better performance. The series of processors use TSMC’s 3nm process.
Recently, it has been rumored that Apple will use the A16 Bionic processor, which was renamed based on the A15 Bionic, in the iPhone 14 series, while the high-end iPhone 14 Pro series uses the A16 Pro Bionic processor. The one will be a modified version of the A15 Bionic.
Although the process is the same node, for example, A12 and A13 both use TSMC’s 7nm process, but A13 uses an upgraded version of the process, which still brings performance improvements. In addition, the current 4nm processes of TSMC and Samsung are also based on A modified version of the 5nm process, the 5nm process for the A16 processor, may also be in the same situation as the A13.
Citation sources: PhoneArena, Forbes