A17 Bionic preview: The iPhone 15 Pro will have a mighty heartbeat

Every year, Apple introduces a new A-series processor with its iPhone upgrades in the fall. We don’t expect anything different this year. In fact, the jump to a new manufacturing process technology—TSMC’s 3nm process—gives the A17 an opportunity to be the most significant leap in performance and features in several years.By looking at the past decade of in-house Apple-designed A-series chips, together with what we know about the manufacturing technology available and the