Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Apple developing in house GPU for next years iPhone
Apple is developing its in-house graphics processing unit to replace its current provider Imagination. The PowerVR supplier stated the Cupertino-based company informed it on working on an independent unit for better control over the production.
Half of Imaginations revenue comes from Apple and losing the iPhone maker as a client will be catastrophic for the company. Depending on how production goes within 15 to 24 months the cash flow from Cupertino is expected to stop.
So we might see an A-series chipset with Apple-designed CPU and GPU as early as the 2018 iPhones. Imagination is skeptical though that the next years iPhone could be with Apple in-house GPU without infringing any current patents.
According to Imagination, both parties are actively discussing “potential alternative commercial arrangements†so we might not see a patent battle after all.
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