News Apple iPhone 16 could leverage Arm's next-generation chip design for AI boost

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For the iPhone 16 series, Apple is expected to announce a new A18 chip that uses Arm's V9 architecture for a serious boost to AI-powered features.

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“Rumors have been swirling for months now, and the latest suggests Apple will adopt SoftBank-owned Arm's newest V9 chip design in its next-gen smartphones…”

Comments like this make it clear the author doesn’t understand the difference between chip design and instruction set architecture compatibility. Apple’s chip designs are their own. Making them compatible with the ARM v9 instruction set has nothing to do with ARM’s chip designs. Mistakes like this makes Tom’s Guide seem very amateur.

 

[Alyse.Stanley]

“Rumors have been swirling for months now, and the latest suggests Apple will adopt SoftBank-owned Arm's newest V9 chip design in its next-gen smartphones…”

Comments like this make it clear the author doesn’t understand the difference between chip design and instruction set architecture compatibility. Apple’s chip designs are their own. Making them compatible with the ARM v9 instruction set has nothing to do with ARM’s chip designs. Mistakes like this makes Tom’s Guide seem very amateur.

Appreciate the feedback! The Financial Times, which broke the story, described it as "Arm's newest V9 chip design" as well, but just to avoid any confusion I've added "design architecture" in the portion you cited here.