Apple Seeks AI Chip Upgrades Through Potential Startup Acquisitions

Apple is exploring acquisitions of AI chip startups as it looks to strengthen its in-house server chip capabilities, according to a report by The Information.

The move comes amid struggles with the performance of Apple's current M2 Ultra chips, which have struggled to run larger AI models efficiently.

In particular, Apple was unable to run Google's Gemini models on its own server infrastructure during the development of the revamped Siri, and had to rely on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google Cloud for more demanding AI workloads.

The company has also been working on a future AI server chip, code-named Baltra, but the project has been delayed.