More than a year ago, Apple launched its first own chip called A4, which was composed of components manufactured by other companies but put together by Apple for its iDevices. Apple built its own chips to give iDevices the best hardware for iOS and behind the whole process are no less than 1000 engineers. Department made by Apple for the development of future chips for iDevices, it has 1000 engineers who try to produce the best combinations of processors, graphics chips, etc., to give iDevices processing power and high autonomy.
We got to talking about why Apple is so well-positioned in the post-PC era, and this executive zeroed in on something you don't hear too often. "Steve Jobs told me he has 1,000 engineers working on chips," he said. "Getting low power and smaller is the key to everything.
Apple focuses mainly on the 2 aspects mentioned above and with each new iDevice technological developments have been brought to the fore, but also in terms of battery autonomy. The Apple department is huge, but it will ensure a constant flow of chips specially made for the iOS of our iDevices. Practically through this department, Apple ensures that it can always have powerful processors for its devices, but processors that consume little energy and emit little heat, exactly what a mobile terminal needs.
It is rumored that Steve Jobs would have made this department and in the future many "Ax" chips will come from it that will be implemented in our iDevices.
