The iPhone 15 Pro that Apple could announce at the end of next year, it could arrive with a significant advantage over current models thanks to its future processor: the A17 Bionic chip. And more specifically, thanks to the new 3-nanometer process that TSMC is starting to produce for its semiconductors.
This new architecture, as stated by Mark Liu, president of the Asian company, Bloomberg, will be able to offer up to 35% more energy efficiency compared to current 5 nanometer chips. It is, yes, an advantage that you will most likely not realize if in the future you decide to buy the iPhone 15.
A priori, that chips manufactured in a 3 nanometer process offer 35% lower energy consumption than those manufactured in 5 nanometers, means that the battery life of the models that include, for example, the A17 Bionic chip, will be considerably improved. But it all depends on the features that Apple decides to include in, in this case, the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro. These could make that extra autonomy offered by the improvement in efficiency hardly differ from its predecessors.
Apple could include improvements in the A17 Bionic chip of the iPhone 15 and offset the improvement in energy efficiency
Curiously, The Information revealed that the company decided a few months ago to backtrack on its intention to include better features in the GPU of the A16 Bionic chip of the iPhone 14 Pro because of a problem in the SoC that the new 3 nanometer chips could solve.
Apple, in particular, realized that the advances they wanted to add, which above all would improve performance in games, caused excessive heating in the chip. This overheating, in turn, it affected the battery life. Therefore, they decided to apply less aggressive improvements to the processor.
Taking into account that the A17 Bionic chip of the future iPhone 15 Pro will offer a significant improvement in terms of energy consumption management, It would not be strange if Apple included the features it wanted to add in the A16 Bionic. They would continue to consume autonomy, but the 35% improvement would compensate it, probably leaving a duration similar to that of the current iPhone 14 Pro.