Apple's Return to Intel Rumored to Extend to iPhone

Intel is expected to begin supplying immoderate Mac and iPad chips successful a fewer years, and the latest rumor claims the concern mightiness widen to the iPhone.


In a probe enactment with concern steadfast GF Securities this week, obtained by MacRumors, expert Jeff Pu said helium and his colleagues "now expect" Intel to scope a proviso woody with Apple for astatine slightest immoderate non-pro iPhone chips starting successful 2028.

The non-pro iPhone chips would beryllium manufactured with Intel's aboriginal 14A process, according to Pu.

The probe enactment did not supply immoderate different details astir these imaginable plans, but based connected the stated timeframe, Intel could commencement supplying Apple with the A22 spot for devices similar the "iPhone 20" and "iPhone 20e" successful astir 3 years from now.

Importantly, determination is nary denotation that Intel would play a relation successful designing the iPhone chips, with its engagement expected to beryllium strictly constricted to fabrication. Apple would proceed to plan iPhone chips, and Intel would commencement to grip a smaller percent of manufacturing alongside Apple's superior chipmaker TSMC.

Last month, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo said helium expects Intel to statesman shipping Apple's lowest-end M-series spot for prime Mac and iPad models as aboriginal arsenic mid-2027. For this, Kuo said Apple plans to utilize Intel's 18A process, which is the "earliest disposable sub-2nm precocious node manufactured successful North America."

Intel supplying Apple-designed, Arm-based chips would disagree from the epoch of Intel-based Macs, which utilized Intel-designed processors with x86 architecture.

Apple reaching a spot proviso woody with Intel would boost its reliance connected an American manufacturing institution and assistance to diversify its proviso chain.

Intel antecedently supplied Apple with cellular modems for immoderate iPhone 7 to iPhone 11 models.
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