Apple eyes 9GB RAM for iPhone 18 to power AI features
A leak suggests the iPhone 18 and 18e will ship with 9GB of RAM to give Apple Intelligence more room for iOS 27 AI features; the higher-end iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and Fold Ultra reportedly stay at 12GB. The 9GB config would use six 1.5GB memory dies instead of four 2GB dies and is pegged to launch in the first half of 2027, signaling Apple’s AI ambitions shaping hardware and potentially nudging Android brands to experiment with non-standard RAM configurations.