Apple is said to be using Mac-grade chips in data centres to power AI features on iOS 18.
Apple is expected to use its own chips to power data centres that deliver some of the AI features in iOS 18.
Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that Apple plans to use high-end Mac chips such as the M2 Ultra in the Mac Studio 2023 in cloud-computing servers to power some AI features on iOS 18.
While Apple's preference is for most tasks to be done on device, more intensive ones such as summarising articles and image generation would require the power of cloud computing. This is where these cloud-computing servers would come in.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported in October 2023 that Apple is estimated to spend US$4.75 billion on AI server purchases in 2024. Kuo says some of the AI servers are powered by NVIDIA's HGX H100 8-GPU servers for generative AI training and inference.
As Apple gears up to share details of its ongoing AI work at WWDC 2024, several reports suggest that the company is in negotiations with Google, OpenAI and Baidu to use some of their AI models on the iPhone.
Source: Bloomberg via MacRumors
Our articles may contain affiliate links. If you buy through these links, we may earn a small commission.