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CPUSmartphoneReleased Sep 20, 2024

Apple A18

6C/6T · 4.0 GHz

The Apple A18 was introduced on September 9, 2024 with the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, bringing a chip built on second-generation 3 nm technology to the standard iPhone models for Apple Intelligence. It has 15.2 billion transistors, two performance cores at up to 4.04 GHz and four efficiency cores, a 5-core GPU that Apple rates up to 40 percent faster than the A16 Bionic, a 16-core Neural Engine and 8 GB of LPDDR5X memory. The iPhone 16e uses a version with a 4-core GPU.

General

Manufacturer
Apple
Model
Apple A18
Segment
Smartphone
Generation
A-series (A18)
Codename
Tupai
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
—
Release date
Sep 20, 2024
Price
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Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
6 cores / 6 threadsP2+E4
Base clock
—
Boost clock
4.04 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
12 MB
Technology (nm)
3 nm
TSMC N3E (3 nm)

Platform

Socket
BGA (soldered SoC)
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Apple GPU (5-core)
Memory type
LPDDR5X (unified)
Memory size
Up to 8 GB
ECC memory
✕ No
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
ARMv9.2-ANEONSMEFP16BF16i8mmdotprodAESSHA3PAuth
NPU
16-core Neural Engine — 35 TOPS

OS support

Notes
The A18 runs Apple iOS only. The iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16e are listed by Apple as compatible with iOS 27. The chip is not used in a Mac and does not run macOS, Windows or desktop Linux distributions.

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