We know the upcoming iPhone Slim is going to have a really thin body, and a really light weight body. That implies a much smaller battery.
We know iPhone struggles with battery life especially with newer versions of iOS. And if they dramatically reduce the battery, It’s going to be complicated to stand one day without needing to be plugged mid-day.
So… here’s what I thought. The new M4 chip has already jumped from 4 efficiency cores to 6, and this cores have been increasing their power year after year. I think they are ready to ship an iPhone SoC with efficiency cores only, if not by the A18 gen, then by the A19 gen, or maybe even the A20 gen.
The way they could make the iPhone 17 Pro still appealing with its thickness, would be using a couple of performance core on the A19 Pro, while leaving the A19 Bionic or however they call the chip on the iPhone 17 Slim with just efficiency cores. I think 6 e-cores of this new architecture we’ve seen on the M4 is more than enough. And, of course, a less powerful/ more efficient GPU.
This SoC would need much less energy to work, and the small (thin) battery could be more than enough with such a CPU.
And if you’re wondering about the regular iPhone 17, that could have a binned version of the A19 Pro (without the Pro moniker of course) with just one performance core.
All of them would have the same powerful Neural Engine to efficiently power all the Machine Learning and AI features.
What do you think?
We know iPhone struggles with battery life especially with newer versions of iOS. And if they dramatically reduce the battery, It’s going to be complicated to stand one day without needing to be plugged mid-day.
So… here’s what I thought. The new M4 chip has already jumped from 4 efficiency cores to 6, and this cores have been increasing their power year after year. I think they are ready to ship an iPhone SoC with efficiency cores only, if not by the A18 gen, then by the A19 gen, or maybe even the A20 gen.
The way they could make the iPhone 17 Pro still appealing with its thickness, would be using a couple of performance core on the A19 Pro, while leaving the A19 Bionic or however they call the chip on the iPhone 17 Slim with just efficiency cores. I think 6 e-cores of this new architecture we’ve seen on the M4 is more than enough. And, of course, a less powerful/ more efficient GPU.
This SoC would need much less energy to work, and the small (thin) battery could be more than enough with such a CPU.
And if you’re wondering about the regular iPhone 17, that could have a binned version of the A19 Pro (without the Pro moniker of course) with just one performance core.
All of them would have the same powerful Neural Engine to efficiently power all the Machine Learning and AI features.
What do you think?
