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iPhone 16 Rumored to Feature 'Significantly' Upgraded Neural Engine for iOS 18's Generative AI Features
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I love how quickly some of the fan boys on here are ready and waiting to create another landfill with perfectly serviceable iPhones and put themselves into more debt buying a phone (yes phone plans are debt) because their phone can't do photo editing automatically for them or answer a question they could have googled or figured out for themselves. Or more specifically it could, but Apple may not allow it, which is also apparently perfectly ok. Apple marketing must read these comments and wonder to themselves how they got so lucky to deserve these kind of customers. There is no financial debt they aren't happy to step up for. They may never retire, but when they do die on the job, they will have the latest AI iPhone in their hand, which ironically could have told them how silly they were with their money over the years, if they had thought to ask it.
You’ll need at least 64 cores for that. So maybe iPhone 20?
I have different reasons but I will happily join you in the “old man shakes fist at cloud” group
So regular Siri for everyone but iPhone 16 owners, they get Siri AI. It's a new amazing feature exclusive to the iPhone 16 with iOS 18
You know they will do this.
You know they will do this.
If Apple did a foldable, it would actually be good - so that's why we would love it.
No....? It's just that iPhone 16 might have more AI features on device (some will still be server-side), just like Series 9 Apple Watch, while others will rely on servers more.
M-series Macs and iPads would still have faster neural engines than a phone.
From reading the article above, I would guess Apple is seeking to do more processing on device, which might need a processor designed for that. It would be a shame if they do limit it to iPhone 16, but maybe more justified than some past decisions.
And I’ve never once cared. That said, I imagine there are far more than might initially seem who would prefer Apple pursue a different path.
Well if they are going to keep the AI generation on device for privacy then it makes sense to crank up the neural engine. All other AI systems call out to an external service so everything you enter is captured.
I doubt it.
So about .001%* of the iPhone buying public.
It's the latest marketing magic missile.
*Made up number.
A man who, first and foremost, understands Apple is a business and the decisions will be based on what is best for the business and its owners. Refreshing to find on tech websites.
We don’t know that for sure. Keep your fingers crossed and so will I.
I agree on one hand, and on the other hand, I’m thinking how bad the PR will be if everything is limited to the very newest devices. Especially Siri, who many have suffered with for years. As I’ve said before, limiting that would be a very bad look. And that’s important too.
No disagreement. I had just wanted to show appreciation the message you put out there. I find so many on tech sites seem to forget Apple and the others are profit driven businesses whose owners come first. Some of the conversations I run across where business or finance os part of the discussion, es[pecially those where people are "advising" Apple on how the business should be run, leave me shaking my head.
Worst case scenario: only iPhones with a 16-core neural engine (iPhone 12 and later) get iOS 18. I think it’s likely the iPhone 11 lineup will get iOS 18, but with Apple you never know. Remember when the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus joined the 6s and 6s Plus.
I’m not taking any of this seriously for as long as Siri lacks even basic functionality. It is absolutely pathetic.
I’m not sure that Apple will use it for plain generative AI like ChatGPT. It doesn’t really fit with the kinds of things Apple does. They are more likely to use it to enhance and make it easier to use features of their phones and OS.
It’s used a lot for the AI in Photos to identify features like “bicycle” or to identify faces. It also uses the neural engine to identify and copy the main figure in a photo for pasting elsewhere. The new typing suggestions feature uses the neural engine to learn the kinds of words you are likely to type and suggest those. A lot of the AI that Apple already has on the phones uses the neural engines but it is more behind the scenes stuff that they have been calling machine learning instead of using the AI term. I would expect an expansion of these kind of AI in iOS 18.
Be ready to feel that way come Sept...because that's precisely what Timmy will do!
I’m guessing that the iPad Air will be able to use this new AI technology because it is a new product that had the M1 before and probably will have the M2 next month. Hopefully that means that Apple will run the new technology at least on the M2 for the iPad. I don’t have a phone so I don’t know what that would be.
