Under the new agreement, the companies will partner on chips that will reportedly be used for ‘multiple generations of Apple products’.
Semiconductor and infrastructure manufacturer Broadcom has extended its partnership with tech giant Apple, in a deal that will see both organisations collaborate on custom-made chips through to 2031.
According to Bloomberg, as part of the new arrangement, Broadcom and Apple will work on Asic silicon, which is short for application-specific integrated circuit. Going forward, these types of chips will be found in “multiple generations of Apple products”.
Asic chips are becoming increasingly useful in the development of components for processing artificial intelligence-related tasks and Apple is said to be working on more advanced AI servers set to deploy as early as 2027.
Broadcom has been part of a partnership with Apple for years, providing the organisation with key components such as the radio frequency chips that are used in iPhones for connecting to cellular networks, as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity chips and other networking semiconductors.
