Apple’s new iPhone 16e model, the iPhone 16 series was released as the most affordable version. It turned out that Apple made some hardware changes in order to reach the starting price of $ 599. According to Apple’s official technical data, the A18 chip used in the iPhone 16E model varies from the A18 processor on the standard iPhone 16.

iPhone 16e processor is not a normal A18!

The iPhone 16E’s A18 processor contains a 6 -core CPU (2 performance, 4 efficiency core), a 4 -core GPU and 16 -core Neural Engine. Although CPU and Neural Engine core number are the same as the standard A18, the GPU is designed to be missing a core.

Although this difference is not expected to cause a major performance loss in real use, benchmark tests and graphics can make a noticeable change in intense games. After all, there is a physical difference.

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Chip binning is a quality control process that is frequently used in the semiconductor industry. Since it is not possible for each chip to reach the targeted number or clock speed during production, the producers disable these chips into different categories and disable some seeds. Apple has managed to reduce costs by disabled a nucleus of the A18 chip for the iPhone 16e.

Binned A18 chip comes from the A18 processor on the iPhone 16 to be missing a GPU kernel, while the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max models are used for two nuclei than the A18 Pro chip. Apple previously used a similar method in the iPad Mini (2024) model and offered a cropped version of the A17 Pro on this device.