iPhone 16 identifiers recommend all fashions will get an ‘A18’ chip
In accordance with a leak despatched to MacRumors, the iPhone identifiers (allegedly discovered on Apple’s backend, although no particulars are given) means that this 12 months’s iPhone 16 fashions will all run an A18 chip.
Sometimes, iPhone identifiers are formatted “iPhone xx,x” the place the numbers earlier than the comma symbolize the A-series processor and the quantity after the comma is every totally different mannequin. For instance, “iPhone 15,5” is an iPhone 15 Plus, “iPhone 15, 4” is an everyday iPhone 15, and “iPhone 16,1” is the iPhone 15 Professional. In iPhone identifiers, 14 is for telephones with an A15, 15 is for telephones with an A16, and 16 is for telephones with an A17.
The found identifiers are:
- iPhone17,1
- iPhone17,2
- iPhone17,3
- iPhone17,4
- iPhone17,5
That’s 5 iPhone fashions with a “17” identifier, suggesting they’ll all use an A18 chip. It’s potential all 5 are due for launch this 12 months–iPhone 16, 16 Plus, 16 Professional, and 16 Professional Max, plus some type of “iPhone Extremely” higher-end system. We predict it’s extra probably that one in all them represents an iPhone SE set to debut subsequent spring.
Simply because all of them carry the identify A18 and the identical identifier household doesn’t imply the chips shall be an identical, nevertheless. Apple may disable GPU or CPU cores in lower-end fashions to extend yields and differentiate between them. There may be precedent for this within the iPhone 13 lineup.
The iPhone 13 (identifier: iPhone 14,5), iPhone 13 Professional (iPhone 14,2), and iPhone SE 2022 (iPhone 14,6) all use an A15 Bionic, however the Professional fashions have one further GPU core enabled and two further gigabytes of RAM (6 versus 4). We’re prone to see the same segmentation with this era of iPhones.
This newest leak is in step with earlier rumors that means we’ll see “A18” throughout the board this 12 months, with some distinction between A18 and A18 Professional. The brand new chips are essential partially to run the Apple Intelligence fashions which require a robust Neural Engine and plenty of RAM–the iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max are the one iPhones within the present lineup that shall be suitable with the brand new Apple Intelligence options.
