Apple is teaming up with Samsung to supply digital picture sensors for future iPhone fashions, according to The Financial Times. That is tied to Apple’s Wednesday announcement that it’s working with Samsung’s semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, to launch “an progressive new know-how for making chips, which has by no means been used earlier than anyplace on the earth.”
The Monetary Instances stories that Samsung will use the superior chip know-how to supply three-layer stacked picture sensors for subsequent yr’s iPhone 18 lineup, citing nameless sources “aware of the deal.” Sony is at present Apple’s sole provider of picture sensors, that are produced in Japan below contract with TSMC. Not like Samsung, Sony doesn’t have a US-based chipmaking facility that may allow it to evade the incoming tariffs on chips produced outside of the US.
“We stay assured that we’re superior in offering sensor know-how to our clients, and we’ll deal with persevering with additional technological development by way of bigger sensor measurement and density,” Sony mentioned in a press release to The Monetary Instances.
The Samsung partnership is linked to a $100 billion enlargement to Apple’s American Manufacturing Program, which can now see the corporate make investments $600 billion to convey extra of its provide chain to the US. “By bringing this know-how to the US first, this facility will provide chips that optimize energy and efficiency of Apple merchandise, together with iPhone units shipped everywhere in the world,” Apple mentioned in its press launch.