In 2022, reports indicated that the manufacturing cost of Apple's A16 Bionic chip surged to approximately $110 per unit, marking a 2.4x increase over the A15 Bionic. This 4nm chip, primarily utilized in the iPhone 14 Pro models, drove up the overall bill of materials and forced a strategic divergence in chip usage between standard and premium models. Learn more about the cost breakdown from PhoneArena .
