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Apple is working with semiconductor equipment company Broadcom on its first waiter chip designed to handle AI practical program , harmonize toThe Information , which cited three people with cognition of the project .
Apple is known for designing itsown microchip — called Apple Silicon and principally manufactured by TSMC — for its devices . But those chips were n’t necessarily designed to power AI processing .
Apple on Wednesday revolve out several much - awaited Apple Intelligence features to drug user with raw iPhones and Macs , like itsChatGPT integrating . While Apple contrive to run much of its AI at once on machine , certain undertaking — like Siri and Maps — are address in the swarm and have heavy calculation demands . And Apple plans to roam out even more generative AI features in the coming years .
That ’s where Apple ’s new waiter potato chip , code - named internally Baltra , hail into play .
A source told The Information that Broadcom and Apple are focused on the chip ’s networking engineering , which is critical for connecting a gimmick to a meshing for AI processing . The ship’s company aim to finish the chip shot innovation within 12 months .
