At a jam-packed event in Cupertino this morning, Apple revealed details of the chip powering the iPhone 14 Pro: the A16 Bionic. The successor to the A15 Bionic, it packs more transistors and components specially-designed to accelerate AI and other tasks across smartphone apps and iOS.
Apple says that the A16 Bionic has a multi-core processor with six high-performance and two efficiency cores, a powerful GPU and a 16-core neural engine for accelerating machine learning workloads. The company further claims the high-performance cores use 20% less power compared to the A15 Bionic’s performance cores, while the efficiency cores use a third of the power of unnamed competitor chips.
Other standout features of the A16 Bionic include a custom image signal processor that powers the iPhone 14 Pro’s camera system. Meanwhile, an entirely new display engine enables 1hz refresh rates, features like always-on display, and antialiasing to smooth out rough edges.
The A16 Bionic was built on a 4-nanometer manufacturing processors and packs more than 16 billion transistors.
Apple unveils the A16 Bionic, its most powerful mobile chip yet by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch