AI is the only reason I care about the iPhone 16’s huge A18 chip upgrade

After I bought the iPhone 14 Pro with its then-exclusive A16 Bionic chip, I realized I could have saved money and gone for the regular iPhone 14, which rocked a version of a then-one-year-old A15. I said at the time that smartphone performance has reached a point where I don’t need the absolute best iPhone chip Apple can manufacture. I won’t be using it at its full potential.

A year later, I was more excited about the battery gains the A17 chip would deliver than the speed gains. The A17 Pro turned out to be a much bigger upgrade than expected, especially in terms of graphics performance. The Pros are the only iPhones that can play console-grade games. The A17 Pro also produces much more heat than the others.

But most people will not notice the speed gains. And the iPhone 15 Pro isn’t that much speedier than the Galaxy S24 Ultra.

With all that in mind, the A18 speed gains are the least of my worries for the iPhone 16 upgrade that I’ll get this year. But just when I thought I’d no longer care about my next-gen iPhone processor, they pulled me back in. By then, I mean the iPhone 16 rumors that claim the A18 chips will get a big upgrade for AI. Now, that’s something I can get behind.

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