{"id":283600,"date":"2026-06-29T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:25:08","slug":"a20-pro-leak-shows-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler\/","title":{"rendered":"A20 Pro leak shows iPhone 18 Pro will run faster and cooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-how-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler\">A20 Pro leak shows iPhone 18 Pro will run faster and cooler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-how-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler\">https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-how-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 09:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"appleinsider.com\">appleinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-lede\">A motherboard leak demonstrates that a new production technique has been used to make the A20 Pro in the iPhone 18 Pro. Expect impressive performance, and a cooler running iPhone.\n<\/p>\n<p>Apple is just months away from introducing its iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the rumors about it continue to flow. The latest leak is about its internals, and how it could help improve performance.\n<\/p>\n<p>A supposed image of the motherboard used in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max was shared by WhyLab and Ice Universe on Weibo over the weekend. The shot includes lots of components, but the main focus is on the chip controlling everything.\n<\/p>\n<p>Both Weibo leakers say it is an A20 Pro chip that is packaged using a technique known as Wafer-level Multi-Chip Module (WMCM). Previously rumored about, WMCM differs considerably from the current method of Integrated Fan-Out (InFO).\n<\/p>\n<p>In the A19 and earlier chips, Apple packed the DRAM on top of the application processor. The benefits included minimal latency between the two components, as well as a reduction in power usage.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">A diagram of the iPhone 18 Pro motherboard and A20 chip &#8211; Image Credit: WhyLab\/Weibo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, stacking components in this way also concentrates heat generation in one area. This makes the chip more prone to throttling.\n<\/p>\n<p>Using WMCM, the chiplets are put close together to allow for fast communications, but they aren&#8217;t stacked as before. Instead, the DRAM is shown as positioned to the side of the other chip components.\n<\/p>\n<p>The change retains all of the speed benefits of the InFO method, but in a less compacted form.\n<\/p>\n<p>The result is a spreading out of heat generation. This reduces the risk of thermal throttling, as well as making it easier to manage heat buildup due to having a wider area to work with.\n<\/p>\n<p>Considering the iPhone 17 Pro used vapor chamber cooling to great effect, this should make the A20 a very powerful and thoroughly thermally-managed chip.\n<\/p>\n<p>WMCM&#8217;s use of smaller chiplets also opens the possibility of Apple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-how-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A20 Pro leak shows iPhone 18 Pro will run faster and cooler https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/29\/a20-pro-leak-shows-how-iphone-18-pro-will-run-faster-and-cooler Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/68102-143544-66242-138917-78BE27A2-7091-4A4E-8461-888713889A46-xl-xl.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-283600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17","tag-iphone-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283602,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283600\/revisions\/283602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}