Apple Vision Pro Headset To Use Custom-Designed DRAM Chip – News18

Apple’s upcoming AR (augmented actuality) headset Vision Pro will reportedly characteristic a brand new sort of dynamic random entry reminiscence (DRAM) that has been customized to assist Apple’s R1 enter processing chip.

Apple Vision Pro is powered by a pair of chips, together with an M2 chip and an R1 chip, in line with MacRumors. The Korea Herald first reported the information.

The M2 chip is accountable for processing content material, working the visionOS working system, executing laptop imaginative and prescient algorithms, and offering graphical content material, whereas the R1 chip processes all info from the headset’s 12 cameras, 5 sensors, and 6 microphones and streams photos to the shows in 12 milliseconds.

To meet the R1’s excessive-pace calls for, the headset will use a 1-gigabit low latency DRAM chip provided by SK hynix, which has an elevated variety of enter and output pins to scale back delays, the report stated.

Apple’s $3,500 headset is ready to go on sale early subsequent yr, starting within the US.

Meanwhile, Apple has reportedly slashed Vision Pro Mixed Reality (MR) headset manufacturing plans amid manufacturing challenges in China.

According to a report in The Financial Times, citing sources, Apple has reportedly requested its major Vision Pro assembler Luxshare to make fewer than 400,000 models subsequent yr.

It is reportedly down from an preliminary inside gross sales goal of 1 million.

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