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Newly leaked A20 Pro die shot suggests major GPU boost for iPhone 18 Pro and Apple's first foldable iPhone
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Key Points:
- The leaked GPU core count suggests Apple’s new phone SoC will feature a seven-core GPU, making it the largest GPU cluster Apple has shipped in a phone to date, up from six cores in the A19 Pro.
- This increase in GPU cores is important for Apple to remain competitive with the growing GPU sizes found in Android devices.
- The chip’s floorplan shows a packaging change with memory dies placed beside the SoC rather than stacked, and a widened 96-bit memory interface using LPDDR5X instead of LPDDR6.
- The die image does not reveal labeled NPU or ISP blocks, but it is likely the NPU size has increased significantly, potentially doubling, similar to the Apple M6 chip.
- The possible NPU enlargement may explain the altered CPU placement compared to the previous generation.
