According to Reuters, Apple’s job postings show that it has a team exploring the development of a custom chip that better handles health information from sensors in its devices. This demonstrates Apple’s ability to build custom chips as needed. It also reflects the fact that Apple pays more attention to vertical integration than other technology companies.
Apple's Health Sensing Hardware team's job advertisement says, 'We will be hiring sensor ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) architects to help develop ASICs for Apple's future product sensors and sensor systems. ' Develop custom-made chips with limited functionality, helping Apple adds new features to the device, improves hardware efficiency, and protects its intellectual property while preventing other companies from mimicking new features.
It's unclear which indicators these sensors will be used to detect, but it seems to be used to detect human physiological indicators. The Apple Health Sensing Hardware team released a job posting on August 1st, saying it wants to hire an engineer, 'helping to develop health. , fitness sensor'.
The recruitment information for June shows that the team is developing technologies related to optical sensors. The current Apple Watch integrates optical sensors for heart rate detection. In addition, Bloomberg published an article earlier this year that Apple plans to develop chips for Mac computers. .
