苹果葛越：专供苹果，不对外出售，这是苹果芯片的独特优势

"The chips Apple designed are not for sale to other companies, but specifically for Apple specific products, even for specific functions“

Since leading chip manufacturers such as TSMC have been making Apple's own processors, it has helped Apple surpass Intel in chip performance. Apple's M1 chips and the latest iPhone and iPad A14 chips are all made using 5 nanometers of TSMC. Apple chips are at the leading position in the world, both in design and manufacturing.
"The chips Apple designed are not for sale to other companies, but specifically for Apple specific products, even for specific functions. This optimization runs through CPU, GPU, image signal processor and more components. " On the afternoon of July 8, ge yue, vice president of apple and general manager of Greater China District, introduced the advantages of apple chips in a speech at the 2021 world AI conference.
Ge yue stressed that Apple hardware technology team adopted scalable chip architecture, and the same module could be applied to multiple system level chips (SOC).
To further improve user experience, Apple also has a "neural network engine" in the chip. The so-called "neural engine" is the hardware Apple uses in machine learning in the chip, and can be used in image processing, face recognition, etc. At present, the neural network engine in A14 bionic chip equipped with the iPhone 12 can complete 11 trillion operations per second.
"Apple's end-to-end product design, embedded in machine learning, enables a wide range of familiar features and enhances the innovation capabilities of creators and developers." Ge yue said.
Apple has designed its own iPhone and iPad chips for more than 10 years, and plans to replace Intel chips for MAC computers for several years.
Ge yue said Apple's chips are tailored to their own products and are optimized for machine learning. Because machine learning can provide users with a more unique experience, Apple has long been developing chips that can effectively run complex machine learning algorithms on the device side.
Ge yue said M1 chip is designed with arm architecture, which is a 5-nanometer process, and is the most advanced chip in the current computer products. There are 16 billion transistors on the chip, which integrates the CPU, graphics processor, neural network engine, various connection functions and many other components. Thanks to this, M1 chips accomplish seemingly impossible tasks: significant performance improvements, including up to 15 times faster machine learning and twice the battery life.
With the improvement of chip design capability, Apple has accelerated the pace of replacing Intel chips in recent years, and has expanded its related ecology. Last year Apple released three MacBook Air, macbook pro and mac mini computers, all equipped with self-developed M1 chips, and further applied M1 chips to iPad pro of tablet computers this year.