Apple developing in-house GPU for next year’s iPhone
Apple is developing its in-house graphics
processing unit to replace its current provider, Imagination. The PowerVR
supplier stated that the Cupertino-based company is working on an independent
unit for better control over production.
Half of Imagination's 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 year's iPhone could be with an 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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