The release of each generation of Qualcomm's new flagship chips has always attracted the pursuit of domestic smartphone brands. Under the continuous publicity of domestic manufacturers, high-end 8 series chips have basically become the first choice for Android flagship mobile phone chips in the minds of consumers. But disappointingly, Qualcomm's performance in recent years has not been satisfactory. Since the Snapdragon 888, Qualcomm's flagship core has been surrounded by problems such as "high heat" and "high power consumption". Even in the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen1, the same problem still exists. As far as the current industry is concerned, although Qualcomm is working hard, the boss is still Apple. Recently, Apple's new generation chip A16 has also been exposed.
It is understood that in order to cooperate with the release of the iPhone 14 in the second half of the year, TSMC has begun trial production of A16 chips. In fact, after the release of the iPhone 13 last year, the relevant information about A16 was circulated on the Internet. It is reported that this chip will use TSMC's latest 3nm process. But the latest news shows that although TSMC's 3nm process has made a huge breakthrough, it will not be put into production until August this year at the earliest, so Apple's A16 chip uses TSMC's 4nm process. And for consumers, this may not be a bad thing. After all, the A14 chip that took the lead in using TSMC's 5nm process had serious heat generation, and the stable 4nm process is believed to bring better heat generation and power consumption control to the A16.
In addition to the 4nm process, the A16 chip will continue to use the 2+4 6-core CPU architecture, which has about a 20% performance improvement over the A15. It is reported that Apple will further optimize the CPU architecture and improve energy efficiency to enhance the overall performance of the processor. In addition, Apple will continue the chip strategy of the blood version and the full version, the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max two models equipped with the blood version, and Pro follows the Pro Max to use the full version of the A16.
In fact, in terms of the current chip performance, Apple A16 has already had excess performance, and even A14 is still ahead of the Android camp. For consumers, they may be more concerned about the appearance, signal and battery life of this year's iPhone 14 series.