iPhone 16e Does Not Pack the Top-Notch A18 Chip On iPhone 16?

Apple's latest offering in the iPhone 16e series is likely to be using a binned chip and not the top-notch A18 chip found in the iPhone 16, according to 9to5 Mac. A binned chip is a chipset that was deactivated instead of getting scrapped and hence has fewer cores. This makes it eligible for reuse, but it lacks the same capacity that a fresh chipset may have.

This may be the case due to the A18 chipset that the iPhone 16e runs on, having four cores for its graphics processing unit.

Apple had initially used an A18 chipset with five cores of GPU and a central processing unit of six cores for its iPhone 16 smartphone, and the 'Pro' version had six cores of GPU and six cores of CPU.

The iPhone 16 Pro is reportedly 15% faster in processing graphics than the base version due to this extra core.

Users who play graphically intensive video games or engage in video editing on the iPhone 16e may not see the same efficiency in those tasks as compared to other models in the iPhone 16 series, but other processes should not be affected by this.