On Monday, Apple accustomed the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro as the aboriginal iPhones congenital from the arena up for Apple Intelligence with the A18 and A18 Pro chips. In a new interview, Apple’s Johny Srouji has offered added accommodation on the iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence, including acceptance that all four iPhone 16 models accept 8GB of RAM.
Last year, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus featured 6GB of RAM, while the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max featured 8GB of RAM. This is believed to be one acumen why the iPhone 15 Pro phones can run Apple Intelligence and the added models cannot. This year, all four iPhone 16 models can run Apple Intelligence—partially because they all accept 8GB of RAM.
Srouji, Apple’s chief carnality admiral of accouterments technologies, accepted the 8GB of RAM cardinal in an annual with Geekerwan. This marks the aboriginal time that Apple has about accepted the bulk of RAM in the iPhone 16. Notably, this is a abandonment from antecedent years, as Apple about shies abroad from administration these types of specs publicly.
During the interview, Srouji explained that Apple Intelligence was one of the affidavit for the RAM access but acclaimed that added things will annual as well:
“Our ambition is to body the best products, carrying the complete best user experience. As it relates to Apple Intelligence, DRAM is one aspect. And back we attending at what we’re building, whether it’s silicon, hardware, or software, we don’t appetite to be careless in abounding ways.
We accept lots of abstracts that tells us what is activity to accredit a assertive feature, and Apple Intelligence is one of those very, complete important appearance that we appetite to enable. And we attending at altered configurations, both for ciphering and anamnesis bandwidth and anamnesis capacity. And afresh we accomplish the appropriate accommodation and antithesis of what actually makes the best sense. So, Apple Intelligence was a above affection that led us to accept that we charge to get to 8GB.
But accepting said that, the 8GB is activity to advice badly amid added applications, including gaming, high-end gaming, AAA-titled games, and high-end gaming on device. So, I anticipate it’s activity to be really, actually beneficial.
The added affair to accumulate in mind, this is one of the allowances of accepting the software and the silicon and the artefact actually integrated, is that the software team, our accomplished software team, will optimize not alone for compute, they’ll additionally optimize for the anamnesis brand of anniversary application. So, they don’t end up additionally crumbling memory.
So, we attending at all these trade-offs and we end up with, here’s what makes sense, and 8 gigabytes was the best complete best for us.”
When asked about how Apple Silicon endless up adjoin the blow of the industry and why Apple hasn’t focused on accretion amount counts like some of its competitors, Srouji explained:
“When you attending at the single-thread of achievement amount beyond all of our silicon, it’s the complete best in the industry. We’re arch the industry. If you attending at the ability cores, same, we’re at the complete best. We’re arch in a big way.
And afresh back we attending at the configuration, whether it’s a silicon that goes into the iPhone or the iPad or the Mac, we accept lots of simulation and achievement clay tools, and we attending at complete data. And afresh we booty into account, for example, the array admeasurement for a product, the ability commitment arrangement for a product, the thermal envelope for the product, because overbuilding, again, is wasteful.
For example, for the phone, we came to the cessation that two P4E, so two achievement cores for ability cores, meets the needs of what that accessory requires, because we accept the complete best single-thread, and the ability cores are so acceptable for added tasks, and that agreement works.”
The abounding annual is actually account watching and can be begin below. It’s one of the best – if not the best – interviews I’ve apparent with Srouji. It’s alluring to watch Srouji allocution about the abstruse accommodation of Apple Silicon and apprentice added about all the decisions Apple makes throughout the development action of new articles and silicon.
