During the presentation of the iPhone 13, Apple left out some key performance details when talking about its new and best mobile phone chipset, the A15 Bionic. Under normal circumstances, the tech giant has huge gains in computing performance compared to the custom silicon it had before and with the competition, but something wasn’t right here. According to a new report, the lack of noticeable performance improvements is due to Apple experiencing a sharp brain drain from talented chip engineers.
During the presentation, the A15 Bionic was compared to the A12 Bionic, a chipset that came out three years ago
In terms of performance comparisons, Apple mentioned that the A15 Bionic was 40 percent faster than the A12 Bionic, but that silicon came out years ago. Why would Apple decide to compare its best chipset so far with something that is considered obsolete in the tech industry? It could be due to SemiAnalysis’s new findings, which claim that Apple’s chip team saw a brain drain of talent leave the company.
With the lack of qualified individuals focused on making the A15 Bionic the best chipset for any smartphone, Apple was left with only the incorporation of small improvements, which means that the main offer of the A series of the company was delayed until 2022. The report also states that using a completely new core, Apple used a modified variant from last year.
“We believe that Apple had to delay the new generation of CPU cores due to the staff turnover that Apple has experienced. Instead of a new CPU core, they use a modified version of last year’s kernel.
At least Apple’s chip engineers introduced “some” changes to the A15 Bionic. The Apple Watch Series 7, on the other hand, uses the same S6 chip present in the Apple Watch Series 6, revealing for the second time in a single event that we haven’t seen a new silicon in action yet. Fortunately, things are not so bleak, as the A15 Bionic running on the iPhone 13 Pro beat the A14 Bionic deeply in GPU testing, recording a 55% increase in performance compared to the GPU from last year.
We expect more analysis to occur when more Apple products promoting the A15 Bionic are released. If you wanted to see serious gains in CPU performance this year, we recommend that you skip buying the iPhone 13 unless you like to have the latest and greatest hardware.
News source: SemiAnalysis