Apple is asserting the iPhone 16 sequence on September 9, and a brand new rumor claims all 4 fashions will get 8GB of RAM. In distinction, the iPhone 17 household coming subsequent 12 months will leap to 12GB of RAM.
That may be a fairly important leap and it is apparently all to do with AI – this time across the Apple Intelligence options will probably be largely cloud-based, however as soon as the iPhone 17 fashions launch, much more AI will probably be on-device, therefore the necessity for extra RAM.
Google has already upped the RAM of its units with the Pixel 9 household that launched earlier this month, and it is even utilizing a bit of RAM just for AI purposes and nothing else.
So whereas Apple has historically outfitted its iPhones with method much less RAM than the Android competitors, that’s seemingly about to vary in 2025 because of AI. That’s, after all, if this rumor pans out.
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