All four iPhone 16 models said to ship with same A18 chip – MacDailyNews
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Code discovered in Apple’s backend by Nicolás Alvarez and shared with MacRumors confirms Apple’s plans to release four iPhone 16 models this year, and it indicates that the devices will all have the same A-series chip.
Juli Clover for MacRumors:
There are mentions of new model numbers that are not associated with existing iPhones, and that have the numbering scheme Apple uses for its flagship devices.
All five start with the same number, which suggests that Apple plans to use the same chip for them. With the iPhone 15 models, which have different chips, the internal identifiers have separate numbers.
So if Apple sticks with the identifier numbering scheme it has used for years, all four iPhone 16 models will have the same chip, and that’s in line with rumors and prior leaks. We’ve heard several rumors that the devices will share a chip, and an earlier code leak in March also confirmed the shared identifiers.
While we do expect all four iPhone 16 models to use a new A18 chip, Apple could still differentiate between the standard models and the Pro models, even giving the chips separate A18 and A18 Pro names. Apple could use A18 chips with a smaller number of GPU cores (either binned or disabled) for the iPhone 16 models, while saving chips with a better GPU for the iPhone 16 Pro lineup.
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Apple’s penny pinching in offering old processors in new phones got pinched in the bud quickly. Expect them to make it up on the back end in higher prices for the 16 line and into the future.
Absolutely correct it was absurd that Apple put out a new phone with an old processor. A new processor is the bare minimum for a new phone. The fact that Apple is struggling to differentiate the max phones from non-max goes to show you how pathetic they have become
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