It has been a tumultuous thrust for Apple’s iPhone 14 range, and present accusation has leaked of an “unprecedented” setback for the company’s iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models.
In an exclusive report, The Information reveals that Apple had to cancel a “generational leap for the graphics processor” successful its iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models astatine the past infinitesimal owed to a bid of errors that were “unprecedented successful the group’s history.”
“Engineers were excessively ambitious with adding caller features, and aboriginal prototypes drew much powerfulness than what the institution had expected based connected bundle simulations,” states The Information newsman Wayne Ma. “That could person wounded artillery beingness and made the instrumentality excessively hot, according to 2 radical with nonstop cognition of the incident.”
“Because Apple discovered the mistake precocious successful development, it had to basal the graphics processor successful its iPhone 14 Pro line... mostly connected the plan of the spot that went into past year’s iPhone model, according to 4 radical acquainted with the matter,” Maa continues.
This explains a lot. In October, Nikkei revealed that the A16 spot utilized successful the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max outgo $110, 2.5x much than the A15 utilized successful the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, contempt its marginal show gains. Since release, determination person besides been reports of multiple graphics glitches with iPhone 14 Pro models. Last week owners of some models adjacent began reporting the quality of bizarre horizontal lines moving crossed their displays.
Whether the precocious hardware alteration impacts the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max semipermanent remains to beryllium seen, but I fishy Apple volition beryllium hopeful of quashing astir bugs via a bid of iOS updates.
It is presently unclear whether the iPhone 15 Pro and Ultra volition person the graphics gains intended for the iPhone 14 Pro and Max. But, combined with Apple’s ambitious plans for its 2023 iPhones, they could beryllium the cherry connected top.
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