Apple press conference, global attention.
Many people are watching iPhone 17, but some people are watching Apple's core chips. At this press conference, Apple took out 4 chips at once. To be honest, once Apple took out these 4 chips, its ambitions were completely unhidden and exposed.
We won't talk about mobile phones, we will all talk about the iPhone 17 series. I will only talk about the 4 chips at the Apple launch conference.
The four chips are A19, A19 Pro, C1X, and N1 respectively.
Look at A19 first, this is the chip used on iPhone17 and iPhone17 Air. It adopts TSMC's second-generation 3nm process, 6-core CPU (2 performance cores + 4 energy efficiency cores), 5-core GPU, and 16-core NPU (AI), which is 20% faster than A18 and 200% faster than A15, and supports 120Hz high brushing.
This chip is the best in the industry in terms of CPU and GPU.
The A19 Pro is the Pro model of A19, which also has a 3nm process and uses a 6-core CPU, but it is (4 performance cores + 2 energy efficiency cores). It uses a 6-core GPU and 16-core NPU. Compared with A19, it is obvious that the CPU and GPU are stronger.
In addition, it is also stronger in AI models. The GPU integrates a neural network accelerator and supports local operation of 7 billion parameter models. This chip is used in the two models of Pro, which is also an old routine in previous years.
You may not be surprised by the two chips of A19 and A19 Pro. After all, they will also be released at previous mobile phone launch conferences, so the next two chips will be different.
One is C1X, which is a baseband chip, an upgraded model used for the C1 on the iPhone 16e.
It is said to be twice as fast as the C1, and even faster than the Qualcomm baseband chip used on the iPhone 16 Pro, but with a 30% reduction in energy consumption, making it the most energy-efficient modem on the iPhone to date, which is only for iPhone Air.
It can be expected that Apple's self-developed baseband chip will soon replace Qualcomm's baseband chip.
There is another N1, which is a wireless network chip. Apple's chip used to use Broadcom, but this time it was changed to Apple's self-developed. This chip supports the latest wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread.
It also improves the performance and reliability of personal hotspots and AirDrop (airdrop) and has been used on the entire Apple iPhone 17 series, directly replacing the original Broadcom chip.
These four chips show Apple's ambition, that is, the core computing chips in mobile phones, as well as the baseband chips and wireless chips related to the network, all of which are self-developed. Apple will no longer control these chips in the hands of others.
I guess Qualcomm, Broadcom and other people are under great pressure in the future. After all, if you lack a big customer like Apple, your revenue will definitely be greatly affected.
