The Apple A16 chip that powers the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max should have had a significantly more powerful GPU, according to sources in Cupertino from The Information. Apple would have planned a “generational leap” for the A16 chip with the addition of major new features, such as support for the ray tracing for better, more realistic light management in video games.
The prototypes would have consumed much more energy than estimated by software simulations, with too great an impact on the battery life and overall heat of the iPhone. The error would have been detected quite late in the development process, and Johny Srouji’s teams would have had to fall back at the last minute on a barely improved version of the previous generation GPU. The A16 chip thus presents graphics performance which is only very slightly higher than that of the A15 chip.
This type of error is obviously unprecedented in the history of Apple processors, and it would have led to a restructuring of the team in charge of graphics with the departure of several managers who would have played a key role in the increase in power. Apple chips in previous years. The Information also claims that Apple should have faced a small talent drain in recent years, the engineers who worked on the chips of the iPhone – which are the most powerful on the market – being in great demand by the competition. .
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