Apple’s strategy with its low-end iPhone SE is, I think, a very clever one.
Like the last version, the 2022 makes sacrifices across the whole device… apart from in one feature. Speed.
The brains inside this beauty is Apple’s A15 Bionic chip. At the moment that’s the best you can find in any iPhone - it’s the one you’ll find in the flagship 13 series, both the Pro and non-Pro versions.