The advancements made by Apple’s A-series of SoCs gradually slowed down as a significant number of brilliant chip developers departed the tech titan for better opportunities. Due to this, the A15 Bionic, from which the A16 Bionic inherited the issue, failed to see any appreciable improvements in CPU performance. Fortunately, Apple intends to devote more resources to the next A17 Bionic, most likely with a larger budget and additional chip designers on staff.
Apple’s A17 Bionic is said to be TSMC’s first 3nm processor, and it might be the first of its kind anywhere. Just in time for Apple to prepare the SoC for its premium iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra, TSMC is anticipated to begin mass production in the second part of this year.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that Apple has dedicated more resources to the A17 Bionic’s development in addition to the fact that both flagships seem to launch with more unique features. His conclusion is straightforward: the company’s yearly sales are predicted to decline the more chipset updates there are.
The slowdown of processor upgrades is unfavorable to the sales of end products (such as A16 and M2 series chips). Therefore, to ensure that the world’s most advanced 3nm processors can enter mass production smoothly in 2023–2025, and the performance upgrade and power consumption improvement can significantly improve vs. predecessors, Apple has devoted most of its IC design resources to the development of processors.
-Ming-Chi Kuo
Assuming Kuo is correct, Apple will continue to employ the 3nm process from TSMC until 2025, which means Apple will likely be able to access newer generations of the Taiwanese semiconductor company’s technology. We could also see Apple’s chip developers include some pleasant performance enhancements and features like ray tracing, which were intended for the A16 Bionic but left out in the final product, in addition to concentrating on increased energy savings, which is the real benefit of TSMC’s 3nm process.
In addition to the improved SoC, Ming says that the upcoming iPhone 15 models that are set to be introduced later in 2023 will adopt the Wi-Fi 6E standard. The 12.9-inch and 11-inch iPad Pro versions that were released last year, as well as the new Mac mini and the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, are already utilizing Wi-Fi 6E. Although Apple did not adopt Wi-Fi 6E for the iPhone 14 series, it is prepared to do so with the 2023 upgrade.
Apple’s iPhone 15 lineup is anticipated to feature several new enhancements. The A17 Bionic will power the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra, so if it performs poorly, users may not see the need to upgrade, particularly because the A15 Bionic and A16 Bionic accomplish tasks well in current iPhone models.
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