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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 don’t believe that I indicated that it was about me. I was voicing my desires only. And, I suspect the desires of a lot of other people.
Get ready to be pissed cause Apple has been doing this to all my devices.
It is not clear what the current neural cores are used for. They might make some operations (image analysis and voice recognition) faster, but it is not as if these things can't be done on a CPU—especially one as fast as what's in an iPhone.
I think Apple would have been better served by putting zero "neural cores" in their chips until this year, when it seems like they have found a use case. Hoping Apple will do their thing and present a surprisingly good implementation—one that makes them come out on top despite bing late to the party.
I think Apple would have been better served by putting zero "neural cores" in their chips until this year, when it seems like they have found a use case. Hoping Apple will do their thing and present a surprisingly good implementation—one that makes them come out on top despite bing late to the party.
It will be some photo editing party tricks and text editing assists limited to the upcoming 16s. I have used S24 Ultra and largely forget these new features shortly after setup.
There are also a multitude of iOS apps available if one doesn't mind cloud-based processing.
There are also a multitude of iOS apps available if one doesn't mind cloud-based processing.
Man I’m so close to switching from iPhone because of how boring it is, but I’ll wait first to see what they will come up with in iOS 18 and how much of it will be for iPhone 16 lineup only, which is dumb but whatever, usual Apple behavior.
I've been so disinterested in the actual specs of iPhone SoC for a good while, I had no idea that they doubled them between iPhones 11 and 12 but then haven't added more cores but "only" improved the performance of the (so-called) Neural Engine itself.
If iPhones 16 do indeed make the jump to 32- cores, or just 24(more likely?), then that has to be a big improvement if it's, at the very least, paired with what's going to be a slight improvement over the already-very-powerful iPhones 15 Pro.
I hate to say I'm actually a little hyped, but I do feel it a little bit.
Even if it just amounts to a version of Siri with a touch of GPT then I'm pretty much in.
If iPhones 16 do indeed make the jump to 32- cores, or just 24(more likely?), then that has to be a big improvement if it's, at the very least, paired with what's going to be a slight improvement over the already-very-powerful iPhones 15 Pro.
I hate to say I'm actually a little hyped, but I do feel it a little bit.
Even if it just amounts to a version of Siri with a touch of GPT then I'm pretty much in.
Lets see if this improvements can make siri go beyond setting alarms, switching the flashlight and saying the weather.
Some say Neural Engine needs to be efficient because it needs to E.g. recognize faces on the photos quick and send the information to NSA and FBI before it even gets encrypted on our phones 
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Not necessarily. They have introduced features in WWDC before that were only available for the latest models. It was only revealed later in the fine prints. For instance, the continuity camera feature for Macs and Apple TV, or karaoke feature in Apple Music.
Apple has been making sometimes radical changes to NI cores without changing the core count. And they never publish those changes. They could have, at any time, rebranded the NI as NI2 and set a functionality cutoff and they didn’t.
when DO they actually do that? They don’t.
Foldables suck and an apple foldable will suck also. Just stick to non foldable.
Agreed.
It's kinda funny how a folding phone gets praise for a quality outer screen, so the user doesn't have to open it as often... you come to realize the whole idea is a bit of a stupid venture anyway.
Especially when the costs amount to an overpriced, yet mediocre spec'd phone that susceptible to... sand. 😶
But they went out of their way to signpost that the 15 Pro's chip will not trickle down to regular phones like normal, by giving it the special name "A17 Pro"
I agree, when it's used for generating text. But when reponding to more specific queries I've found them to be a lot sharper and context-aware than the current generation of Siri.
No, nobody cares about the back end stuff. But I'm pretty sure people will care a great deal when they are able to truly delegate tasks like:
"direct me to a gas station with the lowest prices within one mile"
"open the McDonald's app and order a 5 piece chicken mcnugget happy meal for pickup at 2pm at the usual one I go to"
"make a list of nonstop flights to Chicago in early March and email it to Mom"
Right now you have to do a bunch of heavy interacting with your screen to do any of that stuff. I couldn't give a crap about the back end, but any neural engine blah blah whatever that lets that happen? I'm on board immediately. I honestly can't think of anything "more important" than actually making my phone useful.
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