When Apple’s idea to go crazy and embrace industry-sweeping AI technology was first announced, the new feature was aptly named Apple Intelligenceas it only runs on the most expensive iPhones at the moment.
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max Apple Intelligence exclusivity may not be here for long, as it is predicted that the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will also have 8GB of RAM, the minimum for the Apple Intelligence feature. Additionally, they will likely be powered by Apple’s upcoming A19 chipset series and won’t be segmented by processor type like the iPhone 15 models.
For the 2025 model year, however, Apple may continue with the trend of fragmenting the specifications of its iPhone lineup. According to a user who revealed a timeline of iPhone development plans, the iPhone 17 Pro models will come with 12GB of RAM for the first time in the history of Apple devices. In theory this means that
that Apple will leave the iPhone 17 with 8 GB of RAM, the minimum required to run Apple Intelligence functions and reassure future owners by installing of an LTPO screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz.
According to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the particular Large Language Model (LLM) that Apple Intelligence runs on just the iPhone or iPad devices themselves requires approx. 2GB of DDR RAM. LLM chatbot services are artificial intelligence platforms written to recognize, interpret and generate text that resembles a natural conversation with the user.
Through a recent post on a well-known blog, Kuo said that Apple Intelligence on the device is content with a 3 billion-parameter LLM whose resource allocation after joint compression between 2-bit and 4-bit formats can be shrunk to about 0, 7-1.5GB of DRAM, but again this extra amount of RAM “must be reserved at all times for running Apple Intelligence on the LLM device.”
For Kuo, the 11 TOPS (trillion operations per second) that Apple’s M1 chipset can perform is the bare minimum to use Apple Intelligence, but with an appropriate operating system, any Apple A16 chipset and above will be capable. ” Microsoft believes that the basic specification for an AI computer is 40 TOPS of computing power. However, for Apple with AI technology built into the cloud AI (Private Cloud Compute), 11 TOPS of computing power on the device is enough to start providing AI applications on the device,” Kuo said.
future, there will be an Apple Intelligence LLM with 7 billion parameters and this will require at least another 2GB of RAM over the current maximum iPhone so that it can serve as an additional feature on a Pro model and at the same time as a pretext for hashing a non-Pro model.
The iPhone 17 Pro is even more capable and with a 48MP triple camera
If you can run Apple Intelligence with 8GB of RAM or 10GB of RAM, why spend more for a 12GB RAM chip? Well, in the same timeline, 2025 iPhone 17 Pro models are reported to have not one or two, but three 48MP cameras; confirming earlier speculation about Apple’s camera upgrades.
If true, Apple will be following in the footsteps of mobile manufacturers such as Oppo phones, which have advocated for large camera sensors of the same resolution and quality throughout the zoom range. Oppo’s latest flagship, the Find X7 Ultra, for example, has four 50MP cameras, including two periscope zoom kits.
This sensor uniformity makes color balancing much easier and more even, and works wonders for HDR stacking and preserving detail throughout the zoom range. Complex computational photography, however, needs more RAM to run immediately and at the required quality, so Apple may have needed to introduce 12GB of RAM into its iPhone for the first time for exactly the same reasons.
Source: myphone.gr
