Apple originally planned to upgrade the GPU of the iPhone 14 Pro model but gave up because it was too difficult

IT House News on December 24, citing foreign technology media The Information reported that Apple originally planned to make a major upgrade to the GPU of the iPhone 14 Pro model, introducing “ambitious” technologies including ray tracing, but in the end it was difficult to realize the technology. Too large, “unprecedented” difficulties occurred during the development process, and the new GPU plan was forced to be canceled in the later stage of development.

This paid report pointed out that although Apple implemented ray tracing on the iPhone 14 Pro prototype, it seriously affected the battery life and heat generation of the phone, and it was accompanied by many other problems.

IT Home quoted The Information as reporting that after contacting several internal developers, they said that Apple only discovered in the late stage of device development that the GPU in the iPhone 14 Pro model could not meet expectations, and had to rush to use the GPU of last year’s iPhone 13 series A15 Bionic design.

This is also an important reason why the iPhone 14 Pro models have significantly changed compared with previous generations, but the GPU has not improved much. In the face of such missteps, Apple decided to reorganize the graphics processor team, which also led to the departure of some managers and key figures.

IT Home understands that in video games, ray tracing is essentially a system that simulates the movement of light, interacts with other objects in the environment, and finally reaches our eyes. Light bounces off objects, passes through things, and sometimes is even absorbed. All of these interactions require a lot of computing power to simulate, but that’s how ray tracing works to create more realistic images.