The iPhone 14 doesn’t have Apple’s latest processor
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#63C7K)
The 14 and 14 Plus don't have a new processor. | Image: Apple Apple has announced that the regular iPhone won't be getting a new processor this year - instead, the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus will be powered by Apple's A15 Bionic chip, the same chip that's in the iPhone 13 Pro - though it does have a bit more grunt than the A15 that was in the regular iPhone 13 and the $429 iPhone SE from earlier this year, thanks to an extra GPU core. This is the first time that Apple's not updating to a new processor for one of its flagship iPhones since the 2008 iPhone 3G, which featured virtually the same internals as the original iPhone.
The iPhone 14 Pro, meanwhile, has an A16 processor, which the company says is more power efficient, even when doing intensive tasks. The raw specs of the new chip are similar,...