A leaked code snippet indicates that there will be chip parity in the upcoming iPhone 16 lineup, as Apple makes its big AI push.
It appears as if Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16 lineup will all be sporting the same A18 chip, according to a snippet of code that X/Twitter user Nicolás Álvarez (@nicolas09F9) shared with MacRumors. This would be a change in strategy by Apple, which used faster chips in last year’s iPhone 15 Pro models to differentiate them from the standard models. Moreover, the code snippet shows that there will be five new iPhone models instead of the usual four.
The discovered iPhone identifiers all use the same iPhone17,x naming scheme. The number 17 indicates which chip the phone will be using, in this case it will be the A18. Last year’s models had differences in the identifier, with the iPhone 15 Pro models using iPhone16,x and the standard iPhones 15 models using iPhone15,x.
