Apple (苹果) unveiled 2-nanometer A20 Pro, featuring a six-core CPU, seven-core GPU, and two neural engines totaling 32 cores.

Apple (苹果) introduced the A20 Pro, described as using a 2-nanometer manufacturing process, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. Its six-core CPU consists of two “desktop-class” large cores (桌面级超大核) and four efficiency cores, with a separate seven-core GPU.

The chip has two 16-core neural engines, totaling 32 neural-engine cores; these are not additional CPU or GPU cores. Launch coverage reports Apple’s claims of 50% greater memory bandwidth than A19 Pro, GPU speed improvements of up to 40%, and twice the previous generation’s AI processing capability.

Thermal changes include custom packaging described as similar to that used for Mac chips, together with a next-generation vapor-chamber cooling system in the Pro phones. Apple reported up to 40% higher sustained performance for those phones versus the previous generation; the source provides no independent benchmark methodology.

The A20 Pro also powers the foldable iPhone Duo, for which Apple reported up to 35% higher sustained performance than iPhone 17 Pro, alongside a custom vapor chamber. The Pro phones were announced with September 12 preorders and September 18 availability, while Duo preorders and availability were scheduled for October 16 and October 23 respectively.