iPhone Air Features 3D-Printed Titanium USB-C Port With Three Benefits

In the situation conception of its iPhone Air property release this week, Apple revealed that the instrumentality is equipped with a 3D-printed titanium USB-C port.


Apple said the 3D-printed titanium USB-C larboard offers 3 benefits compared to 1 manufactured with a accepted forging process: it is thinner, stronger, and uses 33% little worldly to beryllium much environmentally friendly.

3D printing for metallic is besides known arsenic metallic additive manufacturing, a process that involves creating objects furniture by furniture with powdered metal, based connected a CAD model.

Despite this manufacturing innovation, the iPhone Air's USB-C larboard is constricted to outdated USB 2 speeds of up to 480 Mb/s for wired information transfer.

Titanium cases for Apple Watch Ultra 3 and higher-end Apple Watch Series 11 models are besides made with a 3D-printing process that uses fractional the earthy worldly arsenic erstwhile generations of each device, according to Apple's announcements.

iPhone Air tin beryllium pre-ordered starting this Friday astatine 5 a.m. Pacific Time, portion the caller Apple Watch models are disposable to pre-order now, successful the U.S. and galore different countries. All of the devices are acceptable to motorboat Friday, September 19.
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