Every year, in the month of September, a new iPhone comes out, and in all the years since its introduction, Apple has surprised us with a new chipwith another name, and a improvement in performance and powersomething that is appreciated, especially in its beginnings.
However, is it necessary to continue developing smaller, more powerful chips? Is there a notable difference between an iPhone 13 and an iPhone 16? That’s 3 years of improvements, and yet, if you were given both in one hand, and asked to choose which is the most powerful, you wouldn’t be able to tell.
Is it necessary to improve the chip of an iPhone?
The research and development of this component is not cheap, and although Apple does not want to fall behind its competitors, the question is clear, do we need more power every year in our iPhone? And, as I said, I think not, because you will barely notice that difference between models of various years, which leads us to think that it is all marketing, and that they want to sell us something better, without being it.
And, if we look at the Pro and normal models, what Apple highlights are the cameras, well at the performance levelif we open any game or app in both, they will work the same, and we will not see that difference that existed years ago, where several seconds could pass between one range and another, or multitasking had lag, due to the number of open apps.
It is likely that, in a few years, with the current arrival of Artificial Intelligence, or even powerful mobile games (who knows, a GTA VI on iPhone), a better chip will be needed, but currently, it seems like a rather useless expense, or at least in my opinion.
It is true that, for Mac computers, things change, due to the need of many people for tasks such as programming, rendering, etc., where many resources are used, and having a better chip helps not only reduce times, but also temperature, hardware problems, etc., however, in phones, things change, and, as we said, there is no clear difference between an iPhone 13 and an iPhone 16, and if not, do the test.
Here we leave you a list of the chips and year of releasemaking it clear that Apple has to release one a year, whether or not there are clear differences with the previous one:
- A4 (2010)
- A5 (2011)
- A6 (2012)
- A7 (2013)
- A8 (2014)
- A9 (2015)
- A10 Fusion (2016)
- A11 Bionic (2017)
- A12 Bionic (2018)
- A13 Bionic (2019)
- A14 Bionic (2020)
- A15 Bionic (2021)
- A16 Bionic (2022)
- A17 Pro (2023)
- A18 Pro (2024)
In summary, Is it worth allocating resources to a more powerful chip every year?Or would it be better to try to make the battery better, for the screens to have a higher refresh rate (especially in the lower range), for the operating system itself to increase performance and reduce consumption, etc.? For my part, I am clear about it, and I do not want a new processor that is 2 times faster, as they announce every year, and that no one can see with the naked eye, but rather a real improvement in actions that we carry out every day. What do you think? Leave us a comment with your assessment about it.
