With recent iPhone 12 leaks being significantly less bad than good, the tension went on about how Apple’s new models would turn out. Now we know.
iPhone 12 color concept
The iPhone 12 range will not only be rapid, it will blow the rest of the sector away, according to new information provided by productive industry insider Komiya. The tipster revealed Apple’s new A14 chipset within range will offer CPU and GPU gains of 40% and 50% respectively. That equates to a multi-generation increase on the iPhone’s A13, which is already the fastest smartphone chipset on the market.
Furthermore, this makes sense. Last month, popular YouTuber Filip Koroy (aka EverythingApplePro) revealed that the A14 would deliver a massive performance upgrade to compete with what the iPhone 8’s A11 chip achieved over the A10 of the iPhone 7. That was a game-changing leap , with the A11 offering 70% improved multitasking performance, but even then its high performance CPU and GPU cores were just 25% and 30% faster. Meanwhile, back in January, the iPhone 12 was tipped to overtake the MacBook Pro.
Apple A14 chip – pictured prototypes leaking
So, compared to more recent recent gains (A13 20%, A12 15%), how did Apple suddenly jump ahead again? The major downside is the movement of A14 from a 7nm to 5nm manufacturing process. This means more transistors in the same space (Koroy says 15 billion Vs 8.5 billion on the A13), as well as increased energy efficiency. The latter of that would explain the surprisingly small batteries of the iPhone 12 statement.
But is speed a big selling point? I think so. While plans for so-called Apple Silicon in Macs and MacBooks are exciting news, the real appeal of its ever-improving presence in iPhones is the longing. Thus, while more obvious crowd pleasing upgrades have hit the rocks, the A14 has the potential to make the iPhone 12 line-up of some of the most future-proof smartphones in history.
In this turbulent time, that might just be the hottest audience that is a hot upgrade from all of them.
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