The A16 Bionic chip is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. and manufactured by TSMC. It is used in iPhones 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, and 15 and 15 Plus.
The A16 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit six-core CPU implementing ARMv8.6-A with two high-performance cores running at 3.46 GHz, and four energy-efficient cores running at 2.02 GHz.
It contains 16 billion transistors, a 6.7% increase from the A15’s transistor count of 15 billion. The A16 Bionic also includes an improved neural processing unit (NPU) with 16 cores known as the “Apple Neural Engine”, a new image signal processor (ISP) with improved computational photography capabilities, and a new module for handling screen-related features that Apple calls a “Display Engine”.
The A16 Bionic is about 40% faster than the competition, according to Apple¹. It also has new efficiency cores that use a third of the power of the best efficiency cores of other phones on the market. The A16 integrates an Apple-designed five-core GPU, which is reportedly coupled with 50% more memory bandwidth when compared to the A15’s GPU.
The A16’s memory has been upgraded to LPDDR5 for 50% higher bandwidth and a 7% faster 16-core neural engine, capable of 17 trillion operations per second (TOPS).
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(4) Apple A16 Bionic: Everything to know about the latest iPhone chipset. https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-a16-bionic-3207607/.