Yeah that'd be great! 
Also the technical analysis is ... ummm ... interesting. Dougall already found that the P-cores of the A17 are now 9-wide decode as opposed to 8-wide in the A16, indicating a redesign. True they didn't seem to get much out of that and, on the off chance the leak they reference is true, it may be that additional changes were needed to fully unlock the potential of that initial redesign. But overall the list below seems "ground up" to me.
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It goes on from there in multiple posts. He even evinces theories on why the IPC increase is apparently meager and, as aforementioned, maybe Apple found ways of fixing those issues in this generation*, such as improving the latency of cache misses (or fewer of them) and better memory so the additional core width could be taken advantage of more tangibly ... or even other changes. Dougall wasn't convinced on what the exact bottlenecks were.
Then again, what do I know? Who defines "ground up"?
*again, assuming those leaked numbers are even close to correct - which they are more likely than not, not , sadly 
. Still better to be a pessimist and be pleasantly surprised than an optimist and crushed by disappointment ...
A18 being a binned A18Pro is possible if they do that split and config. Maybe there won't even be such splits going forward - technically there wasn't even one last time. They just didn't make an A17 Bionic last time and reused A16 for the lower end phones. But I won't deny that these A18/A18 Pro rumors are definitely possible and there have been several of them. So, once again, who knows?
