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iPhone 17 Air is perhaps simply 6mm thick, making it the slimmest iPhone ever. The gadget will seemingly use an A19 chip fabricated on TSMC’s newer 3nm node.
The brand new course of node ought to enable for greater transistor density, main to raised efficiency and effectivity.
iPhone 17 Air is perhaps insanely skinny
Rumors recommend Apple will substitute the ‘Plus’ mannequin with the superslim iPhone 17 Air subsequent 12 months. Confirming this, Haitong Worldwide analyst Jeff Pu supplies extra perception into Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup in his newest investor observe shared with MacRumors.
He confirms that rumors concerning the iPhone 17 Air measuring round 6mm are correct.
For comparability, the iPhone 16 is 7.8mm thick, whereas the iPhone 16 Professional measures 8.25mm. This is able to make the iPhone 17 Air’s 6mm chassis notably thinner, even slimmer than the 6.9mm iPhone 6. The latter holds the crown for being Apple’s slimmest iPhone but.
As a result of design complexity and compromises concerned in making such a skinny product, Pu believes the iPhone 17 Air gained’t be a high-volume vendor for Apple. Nonetheless, it’ll assist the corporate showcase its technical prowess and flex its engineering capabilities.
The analyst additionally predicts that Apple’s next-gen A19 and A19 Professional SoC will use TSMC’s new N3P node. Whereas not a serious course of node shrink, it ought to nonetheless present noticeable efficiency and effectivity enhancements.
Pu reiterates that the iPhone 17 Air will solely home a single 48MP rear digicam. A 24MP shooter will likely be frequent throughout your entire 2025 iPhone lineup. As beforehand rumored, these telephones may also use a extra complicated aluminum design than present iPhones.
iPhone 17 Professional Max to get smaller Dynamic Island
Curiously, Pu claims Apple will scale back the Dynamic Island’s width on the iPhone 17 Professional Max. The corporate will obtain this through the use of a “metalens” expertise for the proximity sensor. Seemingly, this may allow the corporate to put the sensor behind the show as an alternative of contained in the Dynamic Island.
