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Apple Reportedly Developing Mobile GPUs as It Continues to Reduce Reliance on Others

Apple Reportedly Developing Mobile GPUs as It Continues to Reduce Reliance on Others 4iu47

By Manish Singh | Updated: 11 December 2015 13:07 IST

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The future Apple has been secretly working on its own graphics processor for a few years now. 51di

Apple currently mandates the design of the processor that go inside its products, and soon it may have the full control over the GPU as well. According to a report on Fudzilla, the company has been working on mobile GPUs "under extreme secrecy for a few years." There's no firm timeline on when these GPUs will be ready, if ever.

Apple has long relied on iPad Air 2, for instance, houses Imagination Technologies' PowerVR GXA6850 octa-core processor.

Apple has been trying to become less reliant on others for the innards on its products. This, in turn, could significantly benefit the company -- giving it full control over the components and their manufacturing, better integration with other components, unmatched technologies, and possibly lower overall cost.

A recent trend in the industry shows that every giant wants to have a complete say on the components that their products assume. Rival company design the processors in its products.

Over the years, Apple has acquired a number of semiconductor firms, P.A. Semi and Intrinsity to name a few, that may have accumulated to give it the expertise to pull take over the manufacturing aspect as well. And we've seen some of that already. It has used its own custom-made processors since the A6 chipset, which was used in iPhone 5.

Separately, Fudzilla also corroborates on a previous report that said Apple was working with Intel for the next iPhone. Apple currently relies on Qualcomm for LTE modems, but the chipmaker reportedly has an "army" working on chips for Apple's next flagship smartphone. The report added that Apple could also side with Intel for the next SoC, if the latter manages to hit some "product milestones." Under the partnership, if it happens, Apple would rely on the chipmaker for fabricating its Ax series of SoCs, integrated with Intel's LTE modem technology.

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