Apple May Use In-House Power Management Chips in Next Year's iPhones

According to anonymous sources cited by Nikkei Asian Review, Apple may be working on its ain power direction fries that can be used in its iPhones as early as next year. The company currently buys these chips from an UK-based semiconductor company chosen Dialog Semiconductors, whose share prices plummeted more than than xx% after this written report.

According to the report, though, in that location's no real clarity on how long it will have for Apple to get its in-house power chips ready for prime-fourth dimension. While one of the sources claim that they will be used in the adjacent-gen iPhones to be released in 2018, some other source apparently told the publication that the chips might non be set until 2019.

Power management chips handle tasks like charging and discharging of batteries, making them critical components in today's electronic gadgets. Apple's new chip will reportedly be the "well-nigh advanced" in its category and, have amend ability monitoring capabilities than others. While there's no immediate discussion on who will be entrusted with the manufacturing responsibilities of these rumored fries, sources cited by NAR claim that TSMC volition very likely be the beneficiary.

This is not the first time that Apple is taking up the challenge and responsibleness of in-house flake design. The company already designs its ain A-series chips that power its smartphones and tablets, with the latest A11 'Bionic' scrap said to be the fastest, most avant-garde mobile SoC in the globe. Earlier this twelvemonth, the company also announced that it will apply its own GPU technology in its smartphones instead of paying license fees to Imagination Technologies for their intellectual property, sending its stock price crashing by over 70% on a single day terminal Apr.

Even equally its stock prices are getting hammered at the stock exchanges, Dialog is putting up a brave forepart, releasing a ambiguous argument about how its business concern every bit usual for the company. Co-ordinate a Dialog spokesperson, "The level of visibility into the blueprint cycle of our leading customers remains unchanged and the business relationships are in line with the normal grade of business organization".