Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 Pro lineup will characteristic the A16 Bionic chip, to be primarily based on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) 5nm course of know-how, famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted primarily based on the Taiwanese chipmaker’s roadmap.
The A16 Bionic chip’s fabrication course of is prone to be the identical because the one for final yr’s A15 Bionic chip, which shipped on the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro fashions. Apple is wanting to make use of the identical know-how for the chip in its next-generation MacBook Air fashions.
Kuo cited TSMC’s roadmap and public bulletins to counsel that the A16 Bionic chip could be primarily based on the N5P logic node used to fabricate the A15 Bionic chip.
He stated Apple would, nonetheless, nonetheless name the brand new processor the A16 Bionic for advertising causes. Kuo did point out that there may very well be slight efficiency enhancements over the A15 Bionic chip.
Kuo had beforehand speculated that whereas the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max would get the A16 Bionic chip, the iPhone 14 fashions would use the A15 SoC obtainable on the iPhone 13 lineup.
His newest feedback counsel that Apple is not going to ship important chip-level efficiency enhancements between the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro fashions as each would use chips primarily based on the identical course of know-how.
Kuo additionally recommended that the brand new MacBook Air would proceed to make use of the identical CPU structure as obtainable on the M1 chip — the identical as on the A15 Bionic SoC. Some earlier experiences had talked about that Apple would use the M2 chip on the brand new fashions.
NO AR/VR HEADSET AT WWDC 2022
The analyst additionally had dangerous information for fanatics of the rumoured AR/VR headset, suggesting that Apple was unlikely to launch the machine on the subsequent week’s developer convention. He reasoned that Apple was not able to launch the challenge and a easy introduction would open Pandora’s field of copycats.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”