iGEEKPHONE June 26 news, according to media reports, there are Revelations that Apple’s iPhone 16 series will be equipped with A18 series processors, in NPU performance is expected to exceed Apple’s own M4 processor.
It is understood that the NPU of the previous generation A17 Pro processor has 16 cores and 35TOPS performance.
In May this year, Apple released 11 inch and 13 inch iPad Pro equipped with M4 processor, which is based on TSMC second generation 3nm process, has 28 billion transistors, NPU computing power increased from 18TOPS to 38TOPS.
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 10, Apple announced a new AI system, Apple Intelligence, which will be integrated into Apple’s operating system and requires strong NPU performance to support its language and image understanding capabilities.
According to Microsoft’s definition of “AI PC”, the computing power of NPU should reach at least 40TOPS, and with the development of AI technology, mobile phones need to support more complex end-to-side large models.
As a result, the NPU performance of the A18 series processors is expected to be significantly improved, and may even reach 45TOPS, the strongest NPU among current AI PC processors.
According to previous reports, the four models of Apple iPhone 16 will be equipped with A18 series chips as standard, rather than taking a differentiated strategy like iPhone 15, of which the standard version is equipped with A18, and the Pro version is equipped with A18 Pro.