Jun 26, 2026BF3F-0058Never settled
Kuo: Apple's 2027 lower-end iPhones to get 9GB of RAM
Apple's lower-end first-half-2027 iPhones using the A20 chip will have 9 GB of DRAM.
Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple's lower-end iPhones launching in the first half of 2027, using the A20 chip, would have 9GB of DRAM, up from 8GB in current A19 models.
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- What was reportedApple's lower-end first-half-2027 iPhones using the A20 chip will have 9 GB of DRAM.
- Who said it, and whenMing-Chi Kuo reported it on Jun 26, 2026 in 9to5Mac.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone 18 was announced on Sep 9, 2026, 75 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyNever settledThe company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.Why: Apple's September 2026 event announced iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, AirPods 5, Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4. There is no standard iPhone 18. The first-half-2027 A20 iPhones this report describes have not been announced, and Apple publishes no DRAM figures in any case. What the company published
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- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
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- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Ming-Chi Kuo
- We read it in
- 9to5Mac
- Product
- Apple iPhone 18 · reported as “iPhone 18”