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The iPhone’s most mysterious chip will soon handle more sophisticated features

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The iPhone 12 phones will pack a few custom Apple chips, including a piece of silicon that Apple introduced with the iPhone 11 last year, and added to the Apple Watch 6 this year.
It’s the thirteenth day in October, which means it’s finally time to see Apple’s 2020 iPhone models. The novel coronavirus health crisis forced Apple to delay the iPhone 12 series launch event by a month. On top of that, two of the four iPhone 12 versions will supposedly hit stores in mid-November rather than next week, when the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 and 6.1-inch iPhone Pro will start shipping to buyers. That’s what iPhone 12 rumors say, at least. And we did get a couple of extensive iPhone 12 leaks recently that confirmed many of the previous iPhone 12 rumors and provided a few additional details about a few key iPhone 12 features, like the camera and battery. All four iPhone 12 phones are supposed to feature a few new chips. First of all, we have the 5nm A14 Bionic that Apple introduced with the iPad Air last month. Then there’s 5G connectivity on all these phones thanks to a Qualcomm 5G modem, although it’s hardly likely that the chipmaker’s name will come up on stage during the presentation. More interestingly, there’s another custom chip that Apple will surely pack inside the iPhone 12 series, just like it did in the iPhone 11 models.

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