The battery is still the great Achilles heel of smartphones, and a field in which innovations do not stop appearing. Improvements in more efficient processors, lower consumption screens, more optimized software ... all are indirect measures to achieve greater autonomy, in the absence of the battery itself being the improved one.
With this panorama and without major changes that seem close, the management of the consumption of a smartphone seems a key point in its autonomy, and Apple seems interested in managing this consumption with its own chips, and thus abandoning third-party technology, which is currently in charge of this task.. This could come as early as 2019 and according to rumors it would mean a big change for the better in the autonomy of our iPhone.
According to the rumors, Apple's new energy management chip could be the most advanced in the industry, and it could have a data processing capacity that would allow better monitoring and control of the battery consumption made by the different components. That would mean that iPhone users would have devices that could perform better with lower power consumption.
This is what Nikkei Asian Review publishes, ensuring that Apple would thus abandon its current supplier, the British company Dialog Semiconductor, which would be left in a rather complicated situation, since three-quarters of his income during the past was precisely due to his agreement with Apple. Apple would have reached an agreement with TSMC to manufacture this energy management chip exclusively.
It is not the only rumor that talks about this issue, since months ago it was assured that Apple would already be working on its own energy management chips in Germany and the United States. It is also not the first time that Apple has left a company in the lurchThe last has been Imagination Technologies also tuned in the United Kingdom, which after losing Apple's business has been condemned to be bought by some other company.