Apple’s A18 processor powers the iPhone 16 — and Apple Intelligence

Apple’s next iPhone chip is the A18, powering the new suite of smartphones and Apple’s first lineup touting Apple Intelligence features, created specifically for the iPhone 16.

The new chip, based on TSMC’s second-gen 3-nanometer technology, combines two performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a 16-core neural engine, which Apple says is twice as fast as previous chips for machine learning. It also boasts 17% more system memory bandwidth.

Apple compared the chip to the A16 Bionic, the chip in the previous non-Pro iPhones, as opposed to the A17 Pro. Apple says the new chip is 30% faster than the A16 Bionic.

Apple says that the new 5-core GPU in the A18 is up to 40 percent faster than the GPU used in the A16 Bionic (used in the iPhone 15). This “desktop class” GPU also performs this feat while using 35 percent less power.

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