Apple() has introduced a new top-tier smartphone system-on-chip, the A20 Pro. The processor made its debut today at Apple’s iPhone event, the first keynote hosted by new CEO John Ternus. Apple also announced a new in-house modem, the C2.
The A20 Pro is Apple’s first 2-nanometer chip used in an iPhone. (Apple’s first 2nm chip was the M6, which the company announced in August and will first appear in the Mac mini later this month.) Like the M6, the A20 features dual Neural Engines and new CPU and GPU cores.
The A20 Pro will power the new foldable iPhone Duo as well as the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.
The new SoC has a 6-core CPU with two Apple performance cores (20% faster than the previous generation) plus four efficiency cores with neural accelerators. Apple calls it a “desktop-class” processor and “the fastest CPU in a smartphone.”
The 7-core GPU is 40% faster than the previous generation, with increased bandwidth and new neural accelerators that Apple says double FP8 compute performance.