'A' series chips were also used in the discontinued iPod Touch line and the original HomePod. The 'A' series is a family of SoCs used in the iPhone, certain iPad models, and the Apple TV. Manufacturing of the chips is outsourced to semiconductor contract manufacturers such as Samsung and TSMC.Ī series Evolution of Apple 'A' series Johny Srouji is in charge of Apple's silicon design. Īpple fully controls the integration of Apple silicon chips with the company's hardware and software products. As of January 2023, all newer Mac models are built with Apple silicon only the older model Mac Pro still uses Xeon processors.

The first Macs built with the Apple M1 processor were unveiled on November 10, 2020. It is the basis of most new Mac computers as well as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and of products such as AirPods, HomePod, HomePod Mini, and AirTag.Īpple announced its plan to switch Mac computers from Intel processors to Apple silicon at WWDC 2020 on June 22, 2020.

Apple silicon is a series of system on a chip (SoC) and system in a package (SiP) processors designed by Apple Inc., mainly using the ARM architecture.

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