Apple’s mysterious chip tech will help Samsung make iPhone image sensors in Texas

Sony is presently Apple’s sole representation sensor supplier.

Apple is teaming up with Samsung to nutrient integer representation sensors for aboriginal iPhone models, according to The Financial Times. This is tied to Apple’s Wednesday announcement that it is moving with Samsung’s semiconductor installation successful Austin, Texas, to motorboat “an innovative caller exertion for making chips, which has ne'er been utilized earlier anyplace successful the world.”

The Financial Times reports that Samsung volition usage the precocious spot exertion to nutrient three-layer stacked representation sensors for adjacent year’s iPhone 18 lineup, citing anonymous sources “familiar with the deal.” Sony is presently Apple’s sole supplier of representation sensors, which are produced successful Japan nether declaration with TSMC. Unlike Samsung, Sony doesn’t person a US-based chipmaking installation that would alteration it to evade the incoming tariffs connected chips produced extracurricular of the US.

“We stay assured that we are precocious successful providing sensor exertion to our customers, and we volition absorption connected continuing further technological advancement done larger sensor size and density,” Sony said successful a connection to The Financial Times.

The Samsung concern is connected to a $100 cardinal enlargement to Apple’s American Manufacturing Program, which volition present spot the institution put $600 cardinal to bring much of its proviso concatenation to the US. “By bringing this exertion to the US first, this installation volition proviso chips that optimize powerfulness and show of Apple products, including iPhone devices shipped each implicit the world,” Apple said successful its property release.