Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On the morning of December 26, Beijing time, it was reported that a mistake in developing the A16 Bionic chip may have caused Apple to use a poor processor on the iPhone 14 Pro model, which may indicate a problem within Apple's chip team.

The iPhone 14 Pro uses the A16 Bionic chip, and although it is indeed one of the most powerful chipsets in smartphones today, it could have done better. Benchmark tests show that the performance of the A16 Bionic has improved slightly compared with the same period last year, while the latest information suggests that it could have improved much more than the previous generation.

Four sources said that over the past period of time, Apple's chip manufacturing team has been experiencing a lot of internal upheaval. This may lead to an important change in the A16 Bionic later in development.

According to the report, Apple's original plan was to make a big leap forward in the A16 Bionic, but the power consumption of the early prototype exceeded the company's expectations based on software simulation. High power consumption may affect the service life of the battery and cause the device to become overheated during operation.

Because this discovery occurred later in development, the A16 Bionic had to be built based on the graphics used by A15. The company originally planned that the A16 would introduce ray tracing into iPhone software. Before the official release, there were also rumors that the A16 Bionic would use a 3-nanometer process.

Another strange thing is that Apple only uses A15 Bionic on iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, not A16. Apple may also use the A15 chip on these two models because there is not much difference between the A15 and the A16.

"Apple is still better than expected in terms of the intergenerational performance of its chips," said Ian Cutress, chief analyst at semiconductor analyst More Than Moore. "however, this rate is already slowing. Given their staffing and manufacturing conditions, it is a question mark whether they can continue to grow.

"originally, it also supported ray tracing, but Apple's plan to upgrade the GPU of the iPhone 14 Pro model was abandoned because it was too difficult."

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