Apple is developing specialized chips for smart glasses and AI servers, Bloomberg News reports

Reuters

Thu, May 8, 2025, 10:45 AM 2 min read

(Reuters) -Apple is processing specialized chips that volition powerfulness aboriginal devices including its archetypal astute glasses, artificial intelligence servers and caller MacBooks, Bloomberg News reported connected Thursday.

The iPhone-maker has made advancement connected the spot that it's processing for astute glasses, the study said, citing radical with cognition of the matter.

This indicates that Apple is doubling-down to vie with the fashionable Ray-Ban glasses offered by Meta Platforms.

Apple did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment.

Other processors successful improvement volition service arsenic the brains of aboriginal Macs arsenic good arsenic AI servers that tin powerfulness the Apple Intelligence platform, according to the report.

In a bid to vie successful the lucrative AI market, Apple has made efforts to adhd on-device AI features to its latest enactment of iPhones with Apple Intelligence — a suite that helps summarize notifications, rewrite emails and springiness users entree to OpenAI's ChatGPT, among different features.

The institution has already made strides successful the improvement of in-house silicon and, successful February, revealed its archetypal custom-designed modem spot that connects iPhones to wireless information networks.

The processor for its glasses is based connected chips utilized successful the Apple Watch that necessitate little vigor than components successful products similar the iPhone, iPad and Mac, the study stated.

The chip, which could participate wide accumulation by the extremity of adjacent twelvemonth oregon successful 2027, has been customized for powerfulness ratio and to power the aggregate cameras that are planned for the glasses, Bloomberg reported.

The spot volition beryllium manufactured by Taiwan's TSMC and the glasses — if palmy — are apt to travel to marketplace successful astir the adjacent 2 years, the study added.

Apple is besides moving connected respective caller Mac chips, including processors that volition apt beryllium known arsenic the M6 and M7, according to the report.

(Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa successful Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)