Unmatched… What is the secret of the brilliant chip in the new iPhone?
Apple’s superiority in manufacturing smartphone chips
Apple continues to achieve great leaps in the field of manufacturing smartphone chips, as the American company proved once again, its superiority in this field by equipping the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max phones with the A17 Pro chip, which is the first chip to be manufactured with 3 nanometer technology in the world of smartphones.
And Apple did not hesitate, with the unveiling of the A17 Pro chip, to express the extent of the progress it has achieved in this field, as the iPhone maker, which usually avoids using expressions that can be held accountable for later, clearly indicated that its new chip has settled the game in the world of smartphones.
Apple confirmed that there is no competitor for the A17 Pro chip in any smart phone, and that its chip comes with a formidable performance, that will change the rules of the game and transfer its smartphones to a completely new level.
The result of a tripartite cooperation between Apple, ARM and TSMC
Although Apple is not a company specialized in the manufacture of processor chips, its partnership with ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC helped it to appear in the image of the superior in this field, as the A17 Pro chip, which Apple says is the new generation of Apple Silicon chips, is in fact the product of cooperation between the iPhone maker and ARM and TSMC, as Apple has a license that allows it to use ARM designs for phone processors, with the possibility of modifying these designs, while TSMC, which owns superior technologies, manufactures and produces Apple chips, where the Taiwanese company will give priority to the iPhone maker, so that its phones are the only ones that use a chip with 3 nanometer technology this year, according to a deal that brings the two parties together and stipulates the need to give TSMC priority to Apple.
A new name that indicates superiority
The new Apple chip excels in many technical aspects, which made the iPhone maker confident to this extent of its performance, and pushed it to abandon the phrase Bionic, which it usually used, in naming its chips to replace it with the word Pro, while it was expected that the new generation of Apple chips would carry the name A17 Bionic, Apple chose the name A17 Pro, to indicate the word “Pro” the extent of the superiority of the chip structure compared to its predecessors.
Specifications of the A17 Pro chip
The A17 Pro chip, which is the first in the world of phones, based on 3 nanometer technology, contains:
- Random access memory with a capacity of 8 GB.
- A six-core central processing unit CPU, faster by up to 10 percent, compared to the central processing unit in the A16 Bionic chip, which was launched last year, and is in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max phones.
- A six-core graphics processing unit GPU, completely new in terms of design, and capable of delivering fantastic graphics performance, which will reflect on the performance of games on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, which will become closer to reality. Apple pointed out that the GPU unit in the A17 Pro is faster by up to 70 percent, from the GPU unit in the iPhone 12 Pro phone.
- A neural engine Neural Engine with 16 cores and huge capabilities, and twice as fast as the previous generation, as it can, through the virtual neural networks that it possesses and that resemble in the way they work the complex nervous system of humans, execute and process about 35 trillion operations in one second, which will reflect a great improvement in the capabilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the iPhone 15 Pro phones.
A big leap in the efficiency and performance of iPhone phones
According to Al-Nu’man, the manufacturing accuracy with 3 nanometer technology will provide a very big leap in the efficiency and performance of iPhone phones, compared to other phones, as the number of transistors on the A17 Pro chip ensures the processing of many tasks at the same time, with a noticeable decrease in power consumption, compared to previous generations, whether the phone holder is running large applications, or games with high-quality graphics, the chip will be ready to provide unparalleled performance in the world of phones until now.
Smarter and smoother
Al-Nu’man believes that in addition to its great performance, the A17 Pro is distinguished by its ability to consume less power, which will enhance the battery life of the phone, and allow the user to stay away from the charger for a longer period, pointing out that the artificial intelligence technologies, integrated in the new chip, will make the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max smarter and smoother, as it and with the intelligence capabilities it possesses, will help improve the performance of applications and services, such as Siri assistant and develop the performance of face recognition and smart photography features. He points out that the new Apple chip is characterized by advanced protection technologies that will make it very difficult to hack the phone, or access the personal information of its holder, confirming that the technical world, after the unveiling of the A17 Pro, is facing a chip that represents a huge progress in the world of technology, and combines high performance and efficiency in power consumption, security and advanced artificial intelligence, and respect for strict environmental standards, as it was designed to consume the least amount of natural resources.
A brilliant chip” in the world of phones
For his part, the president of “Technology” company Mazen Al-Dakash, in an interview with the website “Economy Sky News Arabia”, said that the A17 Pro chip was the real star of the launch of the iPhone 15 series, due to the utmost importance that this chip plays in running the phone, as nothing can happen on the smartphone, without the presence of the chip, starting from the camera through the screen to running applications and transferring data, and even the battery.
According to Al-Dakash, the A17 Pro chip is the main brain of the phone, and when the features that it was provided with are collected, we are in front of a “brilliant chip” in the world of phones, as the 3 nanometer technology means that the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max phones currently and without any doubt, have the strongest and most efficient mobile phone chip in the world, and this matter, as Apple mentioned, is “decided” and there is no argument in it, pointing out that this conclusion was supported by the results of tests, conducted by neutral parties that obtained the phone from Apple, in order to test it to find out that the A17 Pro processor is stronger than what Apple announced.
A chip that crushes all forms of competition
Al-Dakash revealed that the A17 Pro chip comes with “accelerated ray tracing” technology, which is 4 times faster than that in the A16 Bionic chip, and this will help the phones to generate very realistic images, as this technology can produce images, that resemble to a large extent what can be seen in the real world, expecting that the A17 Pro will be able to crush all forms of competition, in the market of phone processors during the next 6 months, due to its huge ability to positively affect the work of all the features and technical tools in the phone, which is bad news for Apple’s competitors.