Apple iPhone 18: a major novelty for performance well above iPhone 17
For 2025, Apple has no big projects in terms of its chips. The engraving of the A19s embedded on the iPhone 17 would actually remain in 3 nm, the same finesse used from the A17 Pro of the iPhone 15 Pro. The transition to 2 nm processors would wait 2026, and therefore A20 processors iPhone 18. What promise beautiful changes, between power and autonomy.
The A20 chips of iPhone 18 will be engraved in 2 nm
The 2 nm engraving of the iPhone has been talked about for a while, and the project is more and more materialized. While Ming-Chi Kuo previously spoke of an adaptation on some of the iPhone 18the analyst recently estimated that all models would benefit from this new architecture next year.
This announcement thus augurs beautiful advances for the chips A20 and A20 pro, which would finally abandon the engraving in 3 Nm used since the A17 Pro. This would still not prevent Apple from innovating in 2025, including A19 chips Having opted for the 3 nm third generation of TSMC.
“If new generation flea architectures improve performance and efficiency, it is generally with the new process nodes that we see the biggest advances”underlines 9TO5MAC in the face of the news of Ming-Chi Kuo.
The A20 and A20 PRO of iPhone 18 and 18 Pro would allow more significant energy and energy efficiency gain. It is also interesting to emphasize that the TSMC founder has already affirmed that the engraving in 2 Nm brought a performance gain of approximately 15 % for an identical energy consumption.
As a bonus, it is important to remember that the 5g modem Apple C2 would be there in 2026, which could further accentuate the gain in autonomy suggested by this new finesse of engraving the A20 fleas.
The Mac of next year could also benefit from the 2 NM process with its potential employment on M6 generation. As a reminder, the first iphone and mac chips engraved in 3 Nm both arrived in 2023, with the A17 Pro and the M3.
