While introducing the iPhone 14 Pro series today, Apple also unveiled the A16 Bionic SoC which is the chipset that will power the new handsets. To be clear, the cheaper non-Pro models are sticking with the A15 Bionic, the chip currently used on all iPhone 13 models. The latter component is made using the 5nm process node by TSMC while the A16 Bionic uses a 4nm process node.
The A16 Bionic chip will be equipped with 16 billion transistors, the most found on an iPhone
With the A16 Bionic, Apple says that it focused on three iPhone features: the display, the camera, and power efficiency. It features a 6-core CPU that includes two high-performance cores (that use 20% less power than the same cores on the A15) and four high-efficiency cores. The CPU is 40% faster than the competition, according to Apple, and the company calls it the fastest chip ever used in a smartphone.
Apple calls the new chip the fastest ever found on a smartphone
