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iPhone Batteries Could Have Apple-Designed Power Management Chips Within Two Years
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So buy a case that includes another battery. If they make the phone thin, those that want thin can have thin, and those that want a longer battery can put it in a case that extends the battery life and have it a little thicker. Heck, even Apple sells a case that will fit the iPhone 8 and extends the video playback by and additional 11 hours on an iPhone 7 and talk time by 12 hours. Morphie, and a number of other companies sell ones that also basically double the current battery life.
This isn't power management. This is more like battery management, an area where Apple really isn't that far behind in. This move seems odd to me, unless Apple has ideas that they haven't discussed yet - like bringing the battery management chip into the main SoC.
My guess is Apple is going to bring something akin to power nap to the A series, enabled by this power management chip.
*How times have changed, a Nokia from lets say 10 years back had a standby time of 1 month, and you could use it for a week without charging, so, NO, 1 or 2 days is not fantastic.
*Yes, I am aware that phones do a lot more now.
Praise Apple for having exclusive agreements with various suppliers, then turn around and criticize those suppliers for not having other customers.
I suspect it’s because people have always wanted a smaller, more compact phone, regardless of the 20 or so MacRumors forum trolls who, no matter what the subject, complain to high heaven for a larger, bulkier, battery so they don’t have to spend the few seconds plugging it in at the end of the day.
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But then it would be too thick
Cases occupy connectors and add weight more than a larger internal battery would, so there are disadvantages, but this is what I have been doing. Personally I'd like to see a version of the iPhone customised for outdoor use, including a larger internal battery for running GPS for at least a day (and a longer telephoto). Perhaps after Apple optimises their new chip?
Watch 3.0 is already a two day device. At least that is my experience with it. Suspect they use next several years of improvements only to make device thinner. I can't see much benefit to making iPhone thinner as it still needs some width to be able to hold it. So maybe we will see battery life improvement there. But my X also may already be a two day device as well. I just got mine a week ago, so I'm not sure yet.
How about improve the battery so the screen can be always on, like an actual watch?
More battery life vs. using Facebook... to many, that's a no brainer!
That’s BS and you know it. Apple can’t stopped them from having other customers. If Dialog over extended themselves for a single client, it was short sightedness on their part and their business model was a ticking time bomb.
Apple enters into exclusive supplier contracts, reportedly, but only in situations where they are paying for the equipment. In other words, when Apple buys all the machinery for an assembly line, they don’t want that equipment used to supply their competitors. Nothing wrong with that.
Mine gets more! Go to the Apple Store to check It. Apple is one of the only companies that actually gets to the advertised battery!
Apple is designing its own power management chips for use in iPhones within the next two years, according to Nikkei Asian Review.Apple plans to replace around half of the main power management chips that go into iPhones with its own as early as 2018, but the transition could be delayed until 2019, according to anonymous sources cited in the report.
If the report is accurate, it could be a serious blow for Dialog Semiconductor, the British company that exclusively designs the current main power management chip for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch models. Apple reportedly accounted for nearly three quarters of Dialog Semiconductor's revenue in 2016.
The main power management chip controls an iPhone's battery, including charging capabilities and energy consumption. Apple's in-house version will supposedly be "the most advanced in the industry," which could pave the way for future iPhone models to have a better performance-vs-battery life balance.
Taiwanese supplier TSMC will be the exclusive manufacturer of Apple's in-house power management chip, according to the report.
Today's report corroborates a prediction by Bankhaus Lampe analyst Karsten Iltgen, who earlier this year said that Apple will at least partially cut back on Dialog Semiconductor's supply of power management chips for future iPhones. Iltgen said Apple already has engineers working on the chips in California and Germany.
Dialog responded to the report with a statement claiming that "business relationships are in line with the normal course of business." The company's stock fell nearly 20 percent after the news broke.
Dialog Semiconductor could be the second large British company to lose significant business from Apple within the next year or two. In April, Imagination Technologies shares plunged after Apple informed the firm it plans to stop using its PowerVR graphics technology in its devices within two years.
In addition to power management chips and graphics cores, Apple appears to be moving towards in-house design of several other components, potentially including ARM-based Mac processors and iPhone modems.
Article Link: iPhone Batteries Could Have Apple-Designed Power Management Chips Within Two Years
Selecting TSMC as a supplier only makes sense. They already make their CPUs, yet I feel this power management would be and should be implemented in the M co-processor not within the battery itself. I feel the chip within the battery is for monitoring, calibration, and accurate charge level and charging for the battery - not the power management. Management is in the software and best suited to hardware directly interfacing with that OS and sub-commands/sub-hardware components utilized by the device. Just my thoughts.
I'm aware of that, yet even in hardware there is code to work it, so it's not only hardware itself. I'm just proposing that the mangement should not only be in the battery itself. Then again, this maybe a good reason as Apple will fully lock out 3rd party battery replacements in iPhones in the future.
The power management chip being discussed is not the battery chip. It’s to control power utilization of system components by hrottling voltage and clock rate, and controlling power states.
And the article (I believe) states their looking to place all this within the battery, hence my posts on the matter.