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it home reported on september 7 that the new generation of apple iphone 16 series will be officially released next tuesday. the financial times of the united kingdom stated that apple will release the a18 chip at the press conference, using the latest v9 architecture of arm, a subsidiary of softbank, and vigorously promote the introduction of ai functions into mobile phones.

currently, arm owns the intellectual property behind most of the world's smartphone chip architectures, and the company mainly licenses it to other companies for profit. the custom chips installed in apple's iphone, ipad and mac all use arm's technology.

according to previous reports from it home, apple signed an agreement with arm last september that would "extend beyond 2040." in addition, arm also stated in july this year that its v9 chip accounted for 50% of smartphone revenue.

in fact, the two companies have a long history of cooperation. apple was even one of the original partners in the establishment of arm. as early as 1993, when it released its "newton" computer, it used a processor based on the arm architecture.

although arm technology did not succeed in this computer chip, it has gradually dominated the mobile semiconductor field due to a series of factors such as low power consumption, and apple has always maintained a good cooperation foundation with arm.