The latest SoCs that the apple company has launched, within the smartphone sector, have marked an evolution that is too discreet compared to the previous generation. The A15 and A16 SoCs are two good examples, and the first reports we had seen suggested that the Apple A17 SoC I was going to continue that same trend.
It is clear that there has been a slowdown in terms of performance This has especially affected solutions for smartphones. It costs more and more to improve performance without boosting efficiency, and the introduction of new features that stand out continues to be a challenge due to the consumption of resources, and space on the chip, which they represent when we talk about SoCs for smartphones.
With all this in mind, it makes sense to think that the Apple A17 SoC will not be anything particularly revolutionary, but according to the well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the apple company has made a significant investment so that this new silicon improves significantly compared to the previous generations. It also makes sense because, in the end, we must not forget that said chip will mean the jump to the 3 nm node, and that said manufacturing process will bring improvements in terms of performance and efficiency.
If you wonder what we can expect from the Apple A17 SoC, the answer is quite simple, a performance increase at the higher CPU level than we have seen in previous generations, a more powerful GPU and higher efficiency. We cannot rule out that the apple company is encouraged to introduce other important innovations, such as hardware dedicated to ray tracing acceleration that would be integrated into the GPU.
On the subject of the GPU, it is important to remember what we told you at the time about the project that Apple had for the SoC A16, a next-generation graphics core that promised to mark a small revolution in its category, but in the end it could not come out. ahead because the consumption and the working temperatures that it registered were too high.
Perhaps the Cupertino firm decides to recover that idea for the Apple A17 SoC, and that thanks to the greater investment of resources it is making, it manages to move it forward. There is not much left to clear up doubts, since the launch of the iPhone 15 It is scheduled for September of this year. Before finishing I remind you that, according to the latest information, this new generation of smartphones will have Dynamic Island in all its models, and they will come equipped with iOS 17 as the operating system.
