It is said that Apple's ability to open source and reduce costs, friends are difficult to reach, before the iPhone does not come with a charging head and headphones, Apple must say that it is environmentally friendly (there may be this reason, but not the most important), but everyone understands that in order to compress costs, that has lasted for nearly 2 years (follow-up is so) The new measures have saved Apple how much cost, which may be very curious about netizens.
Recently, there is news that since the implementation of the measure, Apple has saved 6.5 billion US dollars, this figure may be more than some manufacturers' profits, in addition, Apple also has a cost saving measure that you can not imagine anyway, that is, the iPhone 14 released in September this year will actually use A15 chips, which is also a refresh to everyone's cognition.
The news broke out in the industry is quite well-known analysts, you can see that the two iPhone 14 ordinary version will still use A15 chips, and the two Pro versions will be equipped with A16 chips, of course, there are still half a year away from the new machine, we can not 100% believe this news, but the old Guo's popularity in the industry need not be said more, the news of Apple has always had a very high accuracy, such as the previous accurate disclosure of the iPhone SE3 related function configuration news, Therefore, Lao Guo's explosion of the iPhone 14 series model will carry the new and old two generations of chips should have a high degree of credibility.
In fact, Lao Guo is not the first person to break the news, as early as the end of last year, someone in China broke the same news, but recently by Lao Guo again, it further confirmed its credibility.
If the real machine confirms the news, then this will be the first time in more than 10 years that Apple has graded the iPhone through chips, so the question is, what is the higher-level reason for Apple to do this?
Personally, I think that the primary reason may be that the number of A16 chips is insufficient, or it may be that the new process leads to a low chip yield, some people may say that the A15 chip also has a residual blood version, how can the A16 chip not be used according to this routine? It can only be said that some of the A16 residual editions may be of low quality to be unusable.
In this way, the two iPhone 14 standard editions are not going to be spurned by users? Apple certainly won't let that happen, and there's news that the iPhone 14 will come standard with a 120Hz high-swipe screen, which is an important reason for the popularity of the iPhone 13 Pro series.
In fact, in the past two years, the A series of chips of the new iPhone have a residual blood version and a full blood version, and the iPhone 14 series if it is equipped with A15 full blood version and A16 full blood version, in a sense and the current A series chip level division is not much different, in addition, Apple's annual chip stock will have a large surplus, which will not only cause inventory backlog, but also easy to cause waste, Apple has to try its best to consume old chips in the next year, so the cycle continues. There will be old chips that will never be used up, and perhaps starting with the iPhone 14, Apple will use this chip collocation.
If Apple really wants to do this, the iPhone 14 is called the iPhone 13s seems more appropriate, what do you think?