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CTOnews.com, August 22 (Xinhua) it is widely believed that the A16 bionic chip carried by iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max is made using TSMC's 4nm process. However, according to sources, the chip is labeled as a 5nm chip rather than a 4nm chip inside Apple.

URedditor, the whistleblower, said the A16 bionic chip was marked as a 5-nanometer chip inside Apple. This may explain why the M2 Pro and M2 Max found in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models were mentioned in Apple's press release that they were mass-produced in a 5-nanometer process rather than a 4-nanometer process.

The A17 bionic chip will certainly adopt TSMC's most advanced 3nm technology. due to the transition from 5nm to 3nm, the performance leap between A16 bionic chip and A17 bionic chip will be huge. CTOnews.com noted that in the previous benchmark, the A17 bionic chip improved by as much as 31 per cent in terms of single-core and multi-core results compared with the previous generation.

The latest revelations make the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max look more attractive because both phones will be equipped with A17 bionic chips, while the lower-priced iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus may use A16 bionic chips.

In a discussion initiated by URedditor, it was said that Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was also manufactured on the same "5 nm" process, but in some cases the chip showed better power efficiency than the A16 bionic chip. It is also claimed that TSMC's 3-nm process may only have shrunk 5-nm nodes, and N3E technology is the real 3-nm process.

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