Apple's next generation of chips - Apple A16 has begun to stock, this chip will use a new 4nm process system, and finally catch up with competitors in the process system; it is worth mentioning that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 released last year, Tianji 9000 chips are all in the 4nm process format, and apple A15 is still 5nm process.
Of course, although Apple A15 is still a 5nm process system, it is better than the opponent's 4nm process system in terms of performance and heat control; from this point of view, the process system cannot completely change the situation of the manufacturer's "swing rot" - the previous generation of 5nm process system Snapdragon 888 may be said to be a process problem, but Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is 4nm or rotten, it can be seen that chip manufacturers are really unwilling to improve.
It is reported that the iPhone 14 series is not completely using Apple A16 chips, of which iPhone14, iPhone 14 Max will be equipped with Apple A15 chips, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max will use Apple A16 chips; if this is the case, it will be the first time that Apple has adopted two generations of chips on a flagship series.
Although the previous iPhone5s and iPhone5C were released at the same time, the use of the same generation of chips, but the iPhone5c is not strictly speaking the flagship mobile phone series, this machine is more like the SE series of products; but the configuration of the machine is relatively poor, plus the price is not as close as the SE series, so the sales of the machine are very poor.
Interestingly, the iPhone14 series not only "mixed" chips, but also have different memory specifications - iPhone14, iPhone14 Max use LPDDR4X memory, while iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone14 Pro Max use LPDDR5 memory, but fortunately, they are all 6GB, and there may not be much gap in experience.
As for why Apple "mixed" chips, XiaoZhai speculated that it may be insufficient production capacity; industry insiders said that Apple has ordered A16 chips, but the number is only 50 million; as a comparison, the first batch of orders for Apple A15 has reached 250 million; of course, Apple has also placed a large number of A15 orders, it seems that Apple does want to "mix" chips on the iPhone 14 series.
It is worth mentioning that the gap between apple A15 blood version and Apple A14 is not very large, the biggest change in the two chips is the improvement of energy consumption ratio, which means that under the same power consumption, apple A15 chip performance is better; a so excellent chip, even if it is used by Apple on this year's iPhone 14 series mobile phone, the experience is also more than the Android flagship phone.