According to a report from The Information, Apple’s plans for the iPhone 14 Pro’s A16 Bionic chip were derailed by an “unprecedented” engineering snafu. The company had initially intended to include a next-generation GPU that supported ray tracing in the chip, but crucial design mistakes were discovered late in development. These mistakes reportedly stemmed from the silicon team’s ambition to add new features and resulted in the hardware drawing more power than expected, which would have negatively impacted battery life and caused overheating. As a result, Apple had to abandon its plans for the A16 and opt for a chip with a similar architecture to the A15 in the iPhone 13 Pro.
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