Apple has used customization of the processor design to optimize performance, either on the A4 or in a future chip. Here is some language common to a number of the applications. (rough translation ...

Apple’s internally developed A4 chip could be implemented in new devices such as low-power servers, TVs or even communications or entertainment boxes, if the company tries to expand the chip’s ...

Apple’s A4 chip, being used in the iPad, could ultimately provide a speed bump to future versions of the company’s iPhone, analysts said on Thursday. Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPad ...

Apple-designed System on a Chip named the A4. The company's future custom silicon plans are likely to expand even faster following its acquisition of Intrinsity, a privately owned ARM design firm.

When Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun set his sights on replicating Apple's vertical integration playbook, he may have ...

Apple began making its own chips in 2010, starting with the A4 chip, which it used in the first-generation iPad and the iPhone 4. The company increasingly turned to its own semiconductors — a ...

The Apple iPhone 17 will be stuck with an old chip, unlike its siblings. The Apple A18 will be used by the phone, not the ...

By Che Pan and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese smartphone and electric vehicle maker Xiaomi said on Thursday it would launch a new self developed mobile phone chip, XringO1, in late May. The ...

Apple’s M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2020. Apple had been designing its own silicon since the A4 appeared in the iPhone 4 just over a decade earlier.

Srouji joined Apple in 2008 to oversee the development of the A4, Apple’s first custom chip that powered the first-generation iPad and iPhone 4. He was promoted to VP of Hardware Technology in ...