Apple's plan was initially to integrate a new generation of graphics processing unparalleled on the iPhone 14 Pro, and this would have been a big leap in graphics processing on smartphones, and indeed steps were taken in this matter and development began, but lately it had to Canceling this matter after discovering wrong steps described as unprecedented, so we find that the A16 Bionic chip in the iPhone 14 Pro uses a structure similar to the A15 processor in the iPhone 13 Pro.

In a new report, The Information claimed that Apple engineers were very ambitious to add new features to the graphics processor designed for the iPhone 14 Pro, including features such as Ray tracing, and this term refers to one of the advanced and complex technologies in the field of graphics, which works to produce digital images that have a high degree of visual realism by tracing the path of the light beam for each pixel in the image, in the sense of creating light effects that are more close to reality, as this technology works to simulate behavior The physicality of light, so that it bounces off objects within the virtual world just as it does in real life, bringing an extra level of realism to games.

Indeed, it was programatically feasible, and the company moved forward with prototyping. But the test devices or prototypes of the iPhone 14 Pro were consuming much more power than expected, and this had a severe impact on battery life, overheating of the device, and significant problems with thermal management in general.

According to the report, Apple discovered the defect in the iPhone 14 Pro's graphics processing unit late in the device's development cycle, which means it had to cancel its plans for this generation and switch to a slightly advanced graphics processing unit from the A15 Bionic chip. From the iPhone 13 lineup for the previous year.

And we noticed in Conference announcement of the iPhone 14 ProApple didn't exaggerate the new features of the new GPU like it did every time, but hastily stated that the GPU has 50% more bandwidth.

Reportedly, this incident is unprecedented in the history of Apple's chip design and is responsible for why the iPhone 14 Pro came with only minor improvements in graphics performance compared to the leaps made by previous generations.

The error led Apple to restructure its graphics processor team. The report goes on to reveal how the Apple chip design team has had to deal with the loss of talent in recent years, as the company has lost dozens of key people from the Apple Silicon team since 2019, in favor of competing companies.

Do you think that the iPhone 14 Pro was already missing? And that Apple had to offer something unprecedented, but failed? Tell us in the comments.

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