Apple has been using its own A-branded processor chips inside all of
its iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices since several years now. These
A-branded chips have gained much attention as high-performing chipsets
that power Apple’s smartphones and tablets. Along with these A-branded
chips, another new chip could be getting some of the limelight soon, if a
recent rumor is to be believed.
As
Alan Kay’s famous quote goes: “People who are really serious about
software should make their own hardware,” and Apple has been following
this concept quite literally. Many of the hardware components found
inside Apple devices such as the processing chip, motion co-processor,
Taptic engine, Touch ID in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are designed by
Apple itself.
While Apple’s A-branded processor comes with Apple’s
custom cores and microarchitecture, still these chips use numerous
graphic chips developed by Imagination Technologies. A new
rumor suggests that Apple has been working on developing its own
graphics processing unit for mobile devices in an effort to reduce its
dependency on Imagination Technologies.
According to this new
rumor, Apple has been working on an in-house graphics chip meant for its
iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch lineup for quite some time now. The report
indicates that the fruit company has been hard at work to develop its
own graphics chip for its mobile devices for several years now, but it
is not clear when, or even if, a final version of Apple’s in-house GPU
chip – ready for installation in future iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch
devices, will even see the light of day.
The report also suggests that Apple’s next year iPhone model, the iPhone 7, won’t be getting this new GPU chip.
via [GforGames]