The least favorite rumor about the iPhone 14 is repeated again just over 24 hours after its official presentation.
In tomorrow’s Apple presentation, we might see a historic event within the company: a new generation of iPhone that repeats the processor for the second year in a row. According to the rumors we have heard, Apple expected to use A15 Bionic chip released in iPhone 13 generation in iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plusthat is, only the iPhone 14 Pro will use the A16 Bionic chip.
In the history of the processors that Apple has used in the iPhone, the processor has only been iterated once over two consecutive generations: iPhone 3G used the same chip as the original iPhone. But from then on, Apple has always changed the chip from generation to generation. Although this time there could be an improvement.
We’ll see what improvements come with the iPhone 14, because they don’t seem to be too many.
Tim Higgins, of The Wall Street Journalreported that the entry models, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, will be equipped with an “enhanced version” of the A15 Bionic chip. While the report doesn’t reveal much more, we do know what those developments might be.
During these months there have been speculations about the chip that the iPhone 14 will use. It seems that they will be equipped with the A15 Bionic chip, but will use the one used by the iPhone 13 Pro with a five-core GPU, in the iPhone 13 there were only four cores. On top of that they could have 6 GMs of RAM instead of 4.
A rumor that still sounds strange
Although “technically” the iPhone 14 will use an improved version of the A15 Bionic chip, It seems very strange that Apple names this chip A15 Bionic. We saw something similar with the Apple Watch, we had 2 generations of Apple Watch using basically the same chip, but Apple renamed it.
Although Apple Watch, Apple Watch Series 7 has the same chip as Apple Watch Series 6, the 7 series chip is called “S7” and the 6 series chip is called “S6”. Therefore, I expect a similar strategy on the iPhone and that the iPhone 14 chip will be called A16 Bionic and the iPhone 14 Pro will introduce a new nomenclature (A16 Pro?).
If the design of the iPhone 14 is going to be the same as the iPhone 13, they are going to call the processor the same even though it is slightly better and the camera improvements are going to be slight, almost no need to launch a new model. We’ll see what Apple has prepared to surprise us, but I find it hard to believe they’re using the A15 name in the iPhone 14 processor. Tomorrow we’ll find out.
