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APPLE TAKES CONTROL OF ALL CORE CHIPS IN IPHONE AIR WITH NEW ARCHITECTURE TO PRIORITIZE AI

cnbc.com9 min read

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The iPhone Air contains Apple's A19 Pro, N1, and C1X chips, making it the most power-efficient iPhone ever made. The A19 Pro chip introduces neural accelerators to each GPU core to increase compute power. The N1, Apple's first wireless chip for the iPhone, has improved Wi-Fi functionality that enables more power-efficient location tracking. The C1X modem is up to twice as fast as the C1 and uses 30% less energy than the Qualcomm modem in the iPhone 16 Pro. Using its own silicon gives Apple more control, allowing it to do things beyond what it could do by buying merchant silicon parts.