. Now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is deploying its M series chips in its cloud servers, and it seems to be related to the AI features in the upcoming iPhone 16 lineup.series. Earlier it was reported that the company is focusing on running the AI features on-device for privacy of user data. The company also acquired French startup Datakalab to make its on-device LLM more capable and efficient.
According to Mark Gurman, the servers running on Apple Silicon are specially designed to handle AI-related tasks. Apple is using its M2 Ultra chip in its AI servers. Although, the company reportedly has plans to use the new M4 chips as well going forward.There are also reports that the company is developing dedicated chips for its AI servers which will use TSMC’s 3nm process node. However, that’s far from completion, unlike the iPhone 16 series.
People involved with the development of the dedicated server chips informed that the chips have components inside to protect user privacy. The company reportedly uses a method called “Secure Enclave” to isolate data from security vulnerabilities.