Apple's A15 processor may be 'enhanced' for the iPhone 14

It's long been reported that Apple is going to have different processors in its regular and pro versions of the iPhone 14. It's believed that only the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will get the newest A16 processor, and it's been presumed that this means the iPhone 14 will stay on last year's A15.

A new and extremely limited report claims that this may not be quite correct. According to the Wall Street Journal, although the iPhone 14 and what may be called the iPhone 14 Plus will indeed use the A15 processor, it won't be the same as the one in the iPhone 13 range.

"The base models will get an enhanced version of the current A15 processor," says the publication, in total. There is no more detail, nor any information about the provenance of the report.

Monday's report is far from the first one that's suggested that the iPhone 14 processor will be better than the same processor in the iPhone 13. Predictions of 6GB RAM for the entire lineup have been made for some time. It's not clear why the report implies that there's more to it than just that.

If the reports of reserving the year's new processor for the Pro models is correct, this will mark the first time that Apple has done it. Previously one selling point, albeit also one thing that made choosing an iPhone model difficult, was that every phone in each year's range had the same processor.