The iPhone 17 comes with Apple’s new in-house networking chip

Inside Apple’s splashy iPhone 17 lineup is simply a caller chip: the N1. It’s a wireless networking spot made in-house by Apple, allowing its devices to enactment the latest networking technologies, including Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and the astute location protocol Thread.

Apple antecedently utilized chips made by Broadcom to powerfulness Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wrong its smartphones. But now, Apple says the N1 spot volition assistance boost the show and reliability of features similar AirDrop and Personal Hotspot. The iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, arsenic good arsenic the iPhone Air, volition each vessel with the N1.

In summation to the N1, Apple revealed its next-gen C1X 5G modem, offering doubly the velocity of the C1 spot it launched with the iPhone 16E. The N1 and C1X articulation the increasing database of in-house silicon developed by Apple, which besides includes its enactment of processors made for the iPhone, Mac, the Apple Watch, and AirPods.