On the evening of September 13, the iPhone 16 series was officially launched, firing the first shot of the flagship model update in the second half of the year. However, a digital blogger said that the heating performance of the next new phone can be roughly inferred from the iPhone 16.
The blogger said that if the iPhone 16 really becomes a hot topic for high power consumption, the entire mobile phone industry this year will be in danger. He further explained: “Because the iPhone is already conservative.” Although the blogger did not say it explicitly, his words implied that if the first iPhone 16 to be sold cannot control the heat, then the many subsequent Android flagships may also be unable to control it.
The reason why the blogger said this may have something to do with TSMC’s process technology. According to the introduction, the A18 chip equipped with the iPhone 16 is manufactured using TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process (ie N3E). Coincidentally, the next two flagship chips on the Android side, Snapdragon 8 Gen4 and Dimensity 9400, will also be built based on TSMC N3E. If Apple, which is already conservative in tuning, has chip heating problems, then the more radically tuned Snapdragon and Dimensity are likely to be in a more serious situation.
Some netizens also commented that according to previous revelations, the upcoming Android flagship phones are generally stacking up batteries like crazy, constantly increasing the battery capacity of mobile phones. Is it possible that this is also related to the unsatisfactory performance of chip energy consumption? If this is the case, it is not good news for users who want to change their phones in the second half of the year.
