The Apple Inc.'s silicon design group is working on new chips that will serve as a brain for future devices, including its first smart glasses, more powerful Macs and artificial intelligence servers.
Society has made progress on the chip it develops for smart glasses, according to people knowing the issue. This decision indicates that Apple increases work on such a device, which would compete with popular Ray-Ban shows offered by Meta Platformms Inc.
The silicon team has become an essential element of the Apple product development engine in recent years, especially afterstarted to replaceIntel corp processors. With local Mac fleas in 2020. Other development semiconductors would allow future Mac as well as AI servers that can feed the Apple Intelligence platform, said people, who have asked not to be identified because the plans are private.
A representative of Cupertino, California, Apple refused to comment.
The glasses processor is based on fleas used in the Apple Watch which require less energy than components in products such as iPhone, iPad and Mac. The chip has been personalized to eliminate certain parts to further improve electrical efficiency. The processor is also designed to control the multiple cameras provided for glasses.
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The company aims to start the mass production of the processor by the end of next year or in 2027, which indicates that the glasses – in case of success – are likely to come to the market in about the next two years. As with the other large apple chips, the Taiwan partner semiconductor manufacturing Co. will manage production.
Apple has spent years trying to develop smart glasses – something light that consumers can wear all day. The original idea was to use augmented reality, which overlaps the media, notifications and applications on real views. But the AR remains in years to be practical.
In the meantime, Meta and others have succeeded with non -intelligent glasses, which can take photos, play audio, make phone calls and allow users to speak to a voice assistant. Apple is now looking to jump on this market – even if it continues to continue the AR concept. BusinessUser studies heldWith employees on the concept last year.
Apple works on the two options under the code name N401, a recent change compared to the anterior internal nomenclature of N50. Tim Cook, managing director of the company, isdetermined to beatMeta on the glasses market, Bloomberg News reported. But Meta moves aggressively herself. The social networks giant deploys a premium model with a display later this year and plans its first real AR shows for 2027.
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Apple is currently exploring non -AR glasses that use cameras to scan the surrounding environment and count on AI to help users. This would make the apparatus similar to the meta-products, although Apple always finds the exact approach it wishes to adopt. The iPhone manufacturer also needs its own artificial intelligence technology to improve considerably before the company can deploy a convincing device focused on AI.
The company also broadcasts its bets. Apple has worked on the addition of cameras to its airpods and smartwatches, aimed at transforming these products into AI products, Bloomberg Newsreported. The company is developing a chip called Nevis for Apple Watch equipped with the camera and a component named Glennie for AirPods similar to studies. Apple aims to prepare these chips around 2027.
Already, the iPhone has a functionality called Visual Intelligence which can provide a context for photos. For example, customers can scan a music poster and add the details of the event to their calendar.
Beyond the semiconductors for small devices, Apple works on several new Mac chips, including processors that will probably be known as M6 (Komodo) and M7 (Borneo). There is also another more advanced Mac chip in the development nicknamed Sotra. The company plans to bring the M5 processor to the iPad Pro and to the MacBook Pro at the end of this year.
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The chips of the AI server, on the other hand, are the first processors of the company expressly designed for this purpose. They will help process Apple Intelligence remotely requests and feed information with consumer devices. Today, Applemanages this taskWith the same tokens he places in high -end Macs, including the M2 Ultra. Informationreportedthat the AI Server project would use a component developed with Broadcom Inc.
The project, nicknamed Baltra, should be completed by 2027. As part of the effort, Apple envisages different types of chips, including those which have a double, quadruple or eight times the number of main treatment and graphics nuclei like M3 Ultra today. The semiconductors would make Apple's Apple's services faster and more powerful, which would potentially help him to catch up in an area where he has trouble.
The new development semiconductors join a series of other initiatives in the work of Apple material technology groups, managed by the management of Johny Srouji. After the release of the first C1 Modem C1 chip in the iPhone 16th earlier this year, Apple plans a pro-level C2 Modem for high-end iPhones next year and a still high-end version for the following year, Bloomberg News Areported.
The group isAlso responsible forUnderlying components of initiatives planned for even further in the future, including a sensor and chip system that can not measure a person's glucose levels in a non-invasive manner. The company aims to include technology in aFuture versionof the Apple Watch.
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