Contrary to speculation: RAM of the iPhone 16 variants is the same
An Apple boss has now confirmed in an interview that all variants of the iPhone 16 will have 8 GB of RAM. One function was decisive.
iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max are the new Apple flagships.
An Apple department head has confirmed that all iPhone 16 variants will be equipped with 8 GB of RAM. As Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware, Johny Srouji, explained in an interview with Geekerwan, the measure is primarily intended to support Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-board AI functions. It was previously assumed that the iPhone 16 Pro could have 12 GB of RAM.
In the iPhone 15 series, there was still a distinction between the iPhone 15 with 6 GB of RAM and the iPhone 15 Pro with 8 GB of RAM. According to Srouji, the decision to equip the entire iPhone 16 series with 8 GB of RAM was not only made because of Apple Intelligence.
Gaming also played a role
He also referred to other areas of application such as gaming. In the interview, the Apple manager provided insights into the hardware decision-making processes at Apple. For the iPhone, the company decided that a combination of two performance cores and four efficiency cores would best meet the requirements.
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In the interview, Srouji also explained how Apple uses performance and simulation tools to determine the optimal composition of its chips and discussed the advantages of Apple's integrated approach to software and hardware development.
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