If you ever decided to pay a little more to get the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max, congratulations: when it becomes available, you’ll be able to take advantage of the new Apple Intelligence features. But if, on the other hand, you settled on the iPhone 15 or 15 Plus, you won’t be as lucky. Are you wondering why the base models were discriminated against? Well, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was responsible for reveal the real reason.
And no, This does not seem to be related to the A16 or A17 Pro.. The analyst himself found it curious that Apple supports M1 processors in iPad and Mac. but not the iPhone 15 chip which is still significantly strong.
In fact, he confirmed that the A16 chip can handle up to 17 billion operations per second (TOPS)while M1 remains in 11 billion. That is, the processor designed for Mac and iPad is less capable in terms of power, but supports Apple Intelligence, which the iPhone 15 chip cannot boast of.
Therefore Kuo argues that CPU doesn’t matter When we talk about Apple Intelligence, the limiter is somewhere else. Where? According to him, in DRAM memory 6 GB iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, which lower than the 8GB that comes with the M1. This latest amount is also available on the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max models.
“After compression, approximately 0.7 to 1.5 GB of DRAM must be reserved for Apple Intelligence to operate at any time.”
Words by Ming-Chi Kuo
That is, these 2 GB RAM that differentiate the iPhone 15 from the iPhone 15 Pro and products with the M1 chip could cause Apple Intelligence to drop out of the plan for all smartphones below the 15 Pro. The A16 processor seems to be capable, but. volatile memory is what could create a barrier.
Now no one can guarantee that this is the solution was occupied exclusively by RAM and there is no commercial interest here. Apple is an expert at this, so if you have an iPhone 15, you can thank the marketing and sales team, as well as 6GB of RAM.
iPhone “Pro” will need more RAM to run future Apple Intelligence
In his analysis, Kuo also mentions that Apple Intelligence’s current language model uses 3 billion parameters, but that number will soon increase with the second model they release. According to him, it will take up to 7 billion parameterswhat will force the company increase the amount of RAM on your iPhone.
If DRAM is the true limit of Apple Intelligence, the company’s future devices they will leave 8GB RAM aside to integrate more. That is, the iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 17 Pro may include 12 or 16 GB RAM for the sole purpose of performing artificial intelligence functions.
Source: Hiper Textual
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