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Well the latest word from analyst Jeff Pu is that this may not be the case.

There are a bunch of benefits to having smaller chips powering your devices.

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The smaller chips are also more energy efficient, which helps prolong battery life and reduce heat build-up.

Which means iPhone 18 may not have quite as big a performance boost as some people had hoped.

That said, Pu believes that the A20 chip could offer a boost to Apple Intelligence capabilities.

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He claims that the chip will utilize TSMCs Chip on Wafer Substrate (CoWoS) packaging.

And that isnt going to happen for quite a long time yet.

Because they may not be arriving until Apple until the release of iPhone 19 at the very earliest.

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By that pointwe might even have a foldable iPhone to obsess over.

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