iPhone 17 Air: limited GPU performance-and rumors about display problem

The iPhone 17 Air is likely to be the most striking new Apple smartphone this year-especially because the manufacturer is planning a new form factor for its iPhone series for the first time in years. The device should be particularly thin and light, only have one camera and probably a relatively small battery. The 17 Air is intended as the successor for the iPhone 16 Plus, which apparently only sells medium -sized. Now new details about internal hardware have leaked through. They affect the CPU used and the display.

“Binning” version of the A19 Pro

The Chinese Leaker Fixed Focus Digital claims that Apple is installed a power -reduced A19 Pro. The system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be with Five instead of six graphics cores Equipped. The Pro models, on the other hand, have the full GPU number. The 17 Air would get a “binning” version of the A19 Pro. These are socs where Yield reasons Kernels were deactivated. The purpose of the binning is obviously to avoid thermal problems.

However, there was another rumor before: that the 17 Air only receives an A19, a fundamentally stripped down version of the A19 Pro, which Apple is also planning for the standard iPhone 17. The statement came from the well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. It is already clear that Apple is primarily relating to a thin device for the 17 Air, not on high-performance aspects. These remain reserved for the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max.

Does Apple get a BOE problem?

In terms of display of the iPhone 17 Air, there are new information about the manufacturer. Apparently not only Samsung Display and LG Display for Apple from South Korea should work, but also the Chinese producer Boe. The information comes from the financial service provider Meritz Securities Korea, like it on x means. For Apple, this could prove to be a problem: Against Boe, a process by the US International Trade Commission (ITC), which could end with a multi-year import lock for Boe components. According to Samsung, Boe violates various OLED patents of the South Koreans.

Apple had initially announced that there were no BOE components in the company’s products for the United States, but the specification for available hardware was not for new ones. According to Meritz Securities Korea, Boe displays are not only in 17 Air, but also in the standard iPhone 17. At least part of which could also be intended for the US market. In the worst case, Apple would threaten delivery difficulties in the important Christmas business.