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Apple Unveils A20 Pro, Its First 2nm iPhone Chip

Apple says the move to 2nm and WMCM packaging delivers higher sustained performance, wider memory bandwidth, and doubled FP8 AI throughput.

Overview

  • Apple announced the A20 Pro for the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, describing it as the company’s first iPhone system-on-chip built on a 2nm process and the chip that will power iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Duo.
  • The company detailed a six-core CPU with two new high-performance “super” cores it says are up to 20% faster, a redesigned seven-core GPU it claims is up to 40% faster, and two Neural Engine units totaling 32 cores with twice the FP8 inference throughput.
  • Apple moved memory off the top of the chip to wafer-level multi-chip module (WMCM) packaging so DRAM sits beside the SoC, a change Apple says removes DRAM from the chip’s thermal path and lets the phone sustain higher performance for longer.
  • Apple supplied device-level claims that the iPhone 18 Pro can deliver up to 40% more sustained performance than the iPhone 17 Pro and twice the sustained performance of the iPhone 16 Pro, but the company did not publish low-level clock speeds or cache sizes.
  • Independent verification is pending: leaked Geekbench 6 results and third‑party reports suggest very high single‑core and multi‑core scores and rumored clock speeds, yet those figures remain unconfirmed until wider benchmarks and supplier disclosures appear.