Today we have seen, through 9to5mac, a report from Digitimes about the “Titan Project” that hints that the chips that Apple is looking for its Apple Car could be very similar to those of Tesla, will Apple be the competition Tesla in the future? Could Apple be the new Tesla in a few years?
What is Project Titan?
We have been talking about “Project Titan” for years, which is the name given to the project in charge of developing Apple’s autonomous car. At first it was speculated with the idea that Apple itself would be responsible for fully manufacturing its own car, however, today it seems that the Cupertino company opts more to develop the autonomous driving system, which they could adopt cars manufactured by other brands.
In relation to Project Titan, yesterday it was known through the Bloomberg medium, that the leadership of said project is now in the hands of Apple’s head of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
What is the relationship between Apple and Tesla?
According to this Digitimes report, it appears that Apple is advancing the “Titan Project” in such a way that TSMC would be Apple’s ally in the development of autonomous chips. Let’s remember that TSMC and Apple have an extensive relationship since this is the company in charge of manufacturing the A-series chips that are used in the iPhone and iPad and even the famous Apple Silicon chips that mount the new Macbook Air, Macbook Pro and Mac mini.
The relationship with Tesla comes from the fact that Elon Musk’s company could also be working with TSMC on its next autonomous HW4.0 chip. In fact, it is not the first time that the names of Apple and Tesla have crossed the path, since in the past the possible intention of Apple to acquire Tesla has already been rumored. Although the DigiTimes report specifies that the Apple Car model will be similar to Tesla’s, it is unknown what that means. It is possible that it only remains in the fact that it is working on a common concept: to develop an autonomous driving system without further relation.
Apple could fulfill Donald Trump’s wishes
The controversy that has arisen in recent years between Apple and Donald Trump over the former US president’s desire for Apple to manufacture all its products in the North American country is well known, well, this wish could be fulfilled in a certain way, and that is, This report to which Digitimes has had access indicates that Apple’s plans are to establish its own factories in the United States for its autonomous car project.
Let’s take this information with tweezers
They say that when the river sounds water it carries, and although this news can cause emotion in those users who expect that autonomous car from the Cupertino company, we must be cautious and take this information with a lot of tweezers.