Apple has stuck to this script with the iPhone 16e. The phone is powered by Apple's A18 chip, which was introduced with the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro last fall, but has the controls of the iPhone 15.

Reaching the $599/€699/£599 starting price required some resourcefulness, and it’s now confirmed that the A18 chip inside the 16e is not on par with the one used in the regular iPhone 16.

ZTE has introduced a new range of AI-powered 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and Mobile Broadband (MBB) devices at MWC Barcelona 2025. The company, which has led the global 5G FWA and MBB market ...

iPhone 16e launched in India for Rs 59,900. Apple secretly put a less powerful A18 chip inside the iPhone 16e, the most affordable member of the iPhone 16 family. Cupertino is using a binned ...

Amazon is offering huge discounts on all iPhone 16 models. The 128GB model is now available at Rs 72,900. Additionally, ICICI ...

But there's an interesting discussion to be had surrounding the 16e's processor, the A18 chip. At first glance, it seems like the same A18 chip found in the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus ...

The strongest argument in favor of ditching the familiar iPhone SE branding is the inclusion of another component: the A18. That’s the same processor found on the regular iPhone 16. This is ...

Credit: TSMC Taiwanese media outlet Business Times suggests that the Apple iPhone 16e is expected to feature the A18 chip, manufactured using TSMC’s second-generation 3nm N3E process, while its custom ...

The iPhone 16e arrives with several upgrades over the last iPhone SE (2022), including a new OLED display, an extremely powerful A18 chipset, an upgraded 48MP primary camera, Apple Intelligence ...

The A18 in the iPhone 16e is not the same as the A18 in the iPhone 16. Here's why the act of chip binning helps Apple while also creating variants of the same chip for different products.

One of the most interesting tidbits is how the C1 interacts with the A18 chip in the iPhone 16e. For example, in a congested network area, the A18 chip in the iPhone 16e can instruct the C1 modem ...