Samsung will reportedly produce advanced digital image sensors and chips at a facility in Texas that Apple will use in next year’s iPhone 18 lineup.
Apple is teaming up with old frenemy Samsung to build iPhone 18 image sensors
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Rumor: Apple M5 enters mass production, will boost AI performance
The upcoming Apple M5 chips for iPads and Mac laptops, desktops and workstations should enhance the artificial intelligence (AI) performance.
Apple’s marketing materials mistakenly state M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores
The M2 chip in the iPad Air is equipped with nine GPU cores instead of ten, as Apple's website and marketing materials originally stated.
Apple rumored to give the Mac Studio an M3 Ultra chip option around mid-2024
Aside from releasing an M3 Ultra Mac Studio, the iPhone maker is also expected to bring its upcoming flagship chip to the Mac Pro workstation.
Flagship M3 Mac Studio could have a whopping 80-core GPU
The top M3 Max Studio model could have 32 processing cores and a whopping 80-core GPU, but the machine isn't expected to arrive this year.
Looks like the iPhone 15 Pros won’t have 8GB of RAM after all
The iPhone 15 Pros will use Apple’s upcoming A17 Bionic chip equipped with 6GB of RAM, the same as the iPhone 14 Pro models, a leaker claims.
Future non-Pro iPhones no longer expected to use the latest Apple chips
All future Pro-branded iPhones, rather than just this year's iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, are expected to exclusively use Apple's latest mobile chips.
2nm Apple silicon chips due in 2025, 3nm ones debuting in the next iPad Pro this year
TSMC will start mass production of 2nm chips in 2025, with Apple and Intel among the first clients said to use the latest semiconductor technology.
Apple Car autopilot module and other custom chips should be completed in 2023
Work on an Apple Car autopilot chip module and other custom chips should be completed in 2023 after having been underway for almost a year.
Apple is already designing the next two generations of Mac chips with up to 40 cores
As Intel's new CEO makes it a top priority to win back Apple's business, the iPhone maker is apparently developing successors to the company's inaugural Mac chip, the M1.
Intel’s pipe dream: Building a better chip than Apple to convince Tim Cook to switch back
Apple is nuking Intel chips in Macs out of orbit, and the chipmaker is obviously unhappy about it. But according to Intel's optimistic CEO, the company will try to win back Apple's business.
2022 iPad Pro may adopt Apple silicon built on TSMC’s 3nm chip manufacturing process
Apple's upcoming 2022 iPad Pro models will use chips built on TSMC's cutting-edge three-nanometer manufacturing process, resulting in a speed boost and lower power consumption.