Review of Apple A16 Bionic chip: Is it as excellent as expected?

 For a long time, Apple has been far ahead of Android rivals in terms of performance when it holds the right to design and manufacture its own chips that it puts in its smart device work. All the previous A series processors have shown absolutely outstanding power, becoming a factor that helps Apple to stay out of the race to upgrade parameters and still bring impressive power to the iPhone. .

If you wonder what chip the iPhone 14 uses, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus will use the old A15 Bionic chip found on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro Max uses the A16 Bionic chip. Details about this chip include:

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• Produced on 4nm process with 16 billion transistors.
• The components inside this chip are specially designed to enhance the efficiency of AI along with other tasks on iOS apps and operating system.
• A16 Bionic is a multi-core processor with 2 high-performance cores and 4 stable performance cores, plus a 5-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine that can perform up to 17 trillion operations per second. High-performance cores consume 20% less power than the A15 Bionic.
• GPU is boosted by 50% more memory bandwidth.
• The A16 Bionic is up to 40% faster than rival chips.
• The processor combines with the GPU, Neural Engine, and image signal processor in the A16 Bionic to power the new camera hardware and perform up to 4 trillion operations per image captured.

Here are the leaked information about the A16 Bionic chip on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. 

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Apple A16 Bionic only available on iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max

The report on the global smartphone market that TrendForce published in June revealed that this year Apple will launch four products under the iPhone 14 series, including iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max . But instead of putting the new chip in all versions, Apple will only equip the Apple A16 Bionic for the "Pro" versions.

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Meanwhile, the other two versions including iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus continue to use Apple A15 chip as on the current iPhone 13 series . This helps the power of the Pro versions show their superiority and creates a clear hierarchy for the professional variants.

Another quality source, Ming-Chi Kuo, also agrees with this possibility, which is said to be caused by the chip shortage affecting global industries, forcing Apple to make an unprecedented decision. yes.

Apple A16 Bionic is manufactured on 4nm process

The secret to the A series chip's steady increase in power year after year lies in Apple's continuous upgrading of chip casting technology, using more modern processes from TSMC and this year is no exception.

A series of technology pages quoted from DigiTimes said that Apple is likely to apply the 4nm process of close partner TSMC to make the A16 Bionic chip. TSMC named this process N4P - improved from the 5nm process that was used to create the previous A15 Bionic chip line on the iPhone 13 Pro Max .

This information appeared from the end of last year, showing that Tim Cook and his associates soon clearly planned the design and manufacture of chips to optimize iPhone 14 performance. If this becomes true, the A16 Bionic will continue to be the focus of the iPhone 14 configuration upgrade , turning the iPhone 14 series into the world's first devices running 4nm chip.

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Does Apple A16 Bionic performance meet expectations?

In fact, Apple's initial roadmap is towards using the 3nm process, but the company and TSMC have encountered technical barriers so this process will be used on the iPhone 15 chip next year. This makes the technology world wonder if the power of the Apple A16 Bionic chip can meet the expectations of users.

However, you can be assured of the power upgrade that A16 Bionic brings to the iPhone 14 series. According to experts' predictions, the use of 4nm process makes the iPhone 14 Pro / Pro Max chip 15% more powerful but 30% more battery efficient than the iPhone 13 series chip, which is built on the 5nm process.

In addition to being integrated with a better CPU and GPU, the A16 Bionic is also capable of supporting LPDDR5 RAM, which gives the advantage of improving the speed of the iPhone 14 series. All iPhone models use only LPDDR4X RAM, including the iPhone 13 Pro Max, so the use of new chips and new RAM technology will greatly enhance the power of iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.

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The ability to support the new Apple A16 Bionic feature

The Apple A16 Bionic review is still relatively early, but the accompanying features and this chip that powers the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max have already leaked from various sources.

The first is that this chip is optimized to support higher resolution cameras. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, this year's iPhone 14 camera will be increased to 48MP on the Pro and A16 Bionic versions, optimized to handle the more complex image signals that the lens transmits.

In addition, the neural processing core of the new generation chip has also been improved to better support AR and VR tasks, providing good gaming quality and optimizing AI features when operating. The ability to use energy efficiently also helps the iPhone 14 save much more battery.