Apple · Tom's Hardware
Apple A20 Pro powers iPhone Duo, 18 Pro, the firm's first 2-nanometer smartphone chip
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Apple has a new top system-on-a-chip for smartphones, the A20 Pro.
Key facts
- The iPhone 18 Pro will start at $1,199, while the Pro Max will start at $1,299
- Using a proprietary test based on data from how people use their phones, Apple claims 24 hours per charge on the 18 Pro and 30 hours on the Pro Max
- The company claims that this will allow for up to 40% sustained performance over the iPhone 17 Pro and 2x sustained performance over the 16 Pro
- Apple's other new silicon was the S11, a chip for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4
Summary
The A20 Pro is Apple's first 2-nanometer chip in an iPhone. (Its first-ever 2 nm chip is the M6, which the company announced in August and which will debut in the Mac Mini later this month). The A20 Pro will power the new foldable iPhone Duo, along with the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. The new SOC boasts a 6-core CPU with two of the company's super-cores (20% faster than last generation), and there are also four efficiency cores with neural accelerators. The 7-core GPU has a 40% boost gen-over-gen with increased bandwidth, along with new neural accelerators that the company says allows for twice-as-fast FP8 compute.