All four iPhone 16 models will have A18 chips


Last year Apple launched the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus with the A16 Bionic chip and the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max with the A17 Pro, creating an even bigger gap between the Pro and non-Pro models. It wasn't very well received, and now when you see that only the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max support Apple intelligence, it proves to be a huge step up thanks to the chipset itself.

The good news is that it seems Apple is not going to do anything like that this year. According to code found in Apple's backend, all four iPhone 16 models will be powered by the A18 chip.

There might still be a two-tier system where the non-Pro iPhone 16s gets the A18 while the Pro gets the A18 Pro or something like that, but at least the cheaper devices won't be stuck with last year's SoC.

If Apple takes a tiered approach, the vanilla model could have a reduced number of GPU cores, either binned or disabled. Interestingly, five models were discovered in Apple's code, and it's still a mystery which model the fifth one will be – speculation says it could very well be the next iPhone SE, which could launch in early 2025 with the same chip as the iPhone 16 family.

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