Is the iPhone 14 going the same way?

Is the iPhone 14 going the same way?

It's not like Apple hasn't done this before, dating back to 2013 with the iPhone 5S and 5C -- which flipped over. The iPhone 5C, billed as a "budget" version, was poorly received, and its subsequent experience was criticized for hitting performance bottlenecks with the previous generation of chips.

Is the iPhone 14 going the same way?

However, we believe that the iPhone 14 will be much luckier than the iPhone 5C, at least the performance will be no problem, can be trusted to buy.

The iPhone 5C was released alongside the iPhone 5S at a time when Apple's iOS was transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit. The A6 chip in the iPhone 5C uses 32-bit architecture, while the A7 chip in the iPhone 5S already uses the latest 64-bit architecture, which has an exponential performance lead.

At the same time, Apple's hardware and software ecosystems are moving away from 32-bit. Starting February 1, 2015, Apple's iOS will require new apps to support 64-bit; By the A11 processor and iOS 11 in 2017, Apple had completely ditched 32-bit.

In this context, the gap between the A6 chip of iPhone 5C and the A7 chip of iPhone 5S is far beyond the normal iterative changes, and it is inevitable to fall behind quickly.

This rapid lag is unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable future. The next A16 chip, for example, is likely to use TSMC's 4nm process, a modified version of the A15's 5nm process, and the generational gap will be relatively small unless Apple does something big with the architecture or dramatically expands the core and cache size.

Looking at it this way, slowing down a bit doesn't seem like such a bad thing. After all, as Apple executives said at the iPhone 13 event, Android's chips are still catching up to where Apple was two years ago.