India, Sept. 11 -- It is no mean feat that Apple, days apart, has marked significant generational progress for its in-house silicon efforts across the iPhone, Mac and the Apple Watch, and is pushing the envelope of chip innovation. It might seem as if there's a concerted effort to converge mobile and desktop silicon at Apple, but this trajectory has actually now reversed.

The A20 Pro chip which powers the new iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone Duo, is a significant step forward in terms of performance, efficiency and on-device artificial intelligence (AI) compute capabilities, having taken inspiration from the M6 chip. Days earlier, Apple announced the M6, M5 Max and M5 Ultra-which fuses two M5 Max chips-arriving with the Mac mini and Mac Stud...