Working with high-end Apple products, namely the iPhone 15 series and a new M2 Pro chip, which will be released in 2023, Macs will be produced with TSMC’s new 3nm technology. However, incoming reports show that Apple will focus on battery life rather than performance in the A17 Bionic processor, which it will use in the iPhone 15.A17 Bionic will focus on battery life
If you remember, Apple used the A13 Bionic processor released in 2019 as a comparison when introducing the A16 Bionic processor. The main reason for this may be that Apple has lost the main capabilities working on the A-series processors and the development here has slowed down. On the other hand, it seems that we will see a similar scenario in the A17 Bionic processor to be used in the iPhone 15.
In the news shared by Bloomberg earlier today, it was stated that the 3nm process is more performance and 35 percent more efficient than chips produced in 5nm. The source of this data is directly at the top of TSMC, Mark Liu. TSMC states that chips and processors produced with the 3nm process will gain performance gains, but the main emphasis is constantly on energy efficiency.Apple may lag behind the competition
Therefore, the transition from the A16 Bionic processor used in the iPhone 14 Pro models and produced in the 4nm process (TSMC calls it advanced 5nm) to the A17 Bionic will not have major performance increases and the improvement will be experienced on the battery life side.
However, these details do not mean that Apple will use the entire volume of 35 percent energy efficiency in the battery life part. By sacrificing some efficiency, Apple can increase the performance of the A17 Bionic processor and offer more performance at the same power consumption as the A16 Bionic.
However, there are risks waiting for Apple. The test results that emerged a few days ago about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor may be worrying for Apple. In the tests made by @Golden_Reviewer on Twitter, it was revealed that Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is close to A16 Bionic in CPU performance and 30% better in GPU performance than Adreno 740 at similar power consumption. In fact, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is only 17 percent behind Apple’s M1 processor, which consumes twice as much power in graphics performance. In light of all this, it looks like Apple will have something to prove with the A17 Bionic.
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