Apple Silicon might get used for AI chips in server farms

A new rumor claims that Apple will use TSMC's 3nm technology for an AI server processor that it is designing alongside its iPhone and Mac chips.It's already known that TSMC has been developing 3 nanometer processors, and believed that Apple has bought out its entire production capacity for it. The presumption was that Apple would use the process for latest versions of its A-series iPhone chips, and M-series Mac ones.Now, however, a leaker named 'Phone Chip Expert' on Chinese social media site Weibo, claims that Apple is designing a specific, bespoke artificial intelligence processor. As first spotted by MacRumors, the leaker says it will go into mass production in the second half of 2025.If correct, this suggests that Apple is not exclusively focusing on AI being run locally on device. It's been presumed that Apple prefers AI running on the iPhone because of privacy, but so far AI has required greater processing capacity, and storage, than is always available on device. Rumor Score: