Analyst says all iPhone 16 models will get the same 3nm A18 Pro chipset next year،
According to Wccftech, Haitong Securities analyst Jeff Pu has big news on what he says Apple will do with next year’s iPhone 16 series. Pu states that all four new 2024 iPhone models will be powered by the same A18 Pro chip that will be manufactured by TSMC using its second-generation 3nm N3E process node. If true, it would reverse a change Apple made starting with last year’s iPhone 14
series.
Last year, for the first time, Apple did not equip all iPhone models released in a single year with the same chipset (not counting the iPhone SE versions). The iPhone 14
Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max were powered by the 4nm A16 Bionic carrying 16 billion transistors. THE
iPhone14 and iPhone 14 Plus were powered by the 5nm A15 Bionic which, the previous year, was used on all four models of the iPhone 13 series; each chip contained 15 billion transistors.
A18 Pro chipset will be used in all four new iPhone 16 models next year, analyst says
This year, the
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are the only phones in the world to feature a chipset produced using the 3nm process node. The A17 Pro sports 19 billion transistors. Both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus have last year’s Pro Application Processor (AP), the A16 Bionic, under the hood.
As we’ve already mentioned, next year’s A18 Pro will be manufactured by TSMC using its second-generation 3nm process node called N3E and should allow TSMC to increase its yield rate on production 3 nm. Yield is the percentage of chips that pass quality control compared to the total possible number of chips that could be manufactured on a single silicon wafer. Usually, the company submitting a chip design, in this case Apple, would be responsible for faulty dies.
Nowadays, process node is used to mark different generations of processors. As process nodes become smaller, transistor sizes decrease, allowing more transistors to fit into a chip. And the higher the number of transistors on a chip, the more powerful and/or energy efficient a chip is.
