Apple to samsung executives responsible for their own battery research and development

Soonho Ahn brought the data shows, he joined apple in December, as global battery development director. Before joining apple, he was developed, senior vice President of samsung SDI batteries, in nearly four years of work is responsible for the electric vehicle battery development, smart phones and other products.

samsung is one of the largest customers (samsung SDI And shareholders) And samsung SDI is a battery suppliers of apple products. 8 series iPhone and iPhone X batteries are from samsung SDI. However, in recent years, apple has been trying to get rid of the influence of the competitors, the samsung away from the supply chain.

hire Soonho Ahn may mean that apple is interested in developing their own battery production, reduce the dependence on third parties. Bloomberg has reported that apple is in talks to purchased directly from the mines of cobalt. Cobalt is the key component of lithium-ion batteries, and with the momentum of the market of mobile phone battery demand is higher and higher, apple is in the hope to improve myself in the competitiveness of the battery.

in fact, not just samsung battery, qualcomm chip is apple is gradually reduce the dependence on external technology. Last November, apple released the engineer recruitment information, a large number of San Diego and San Diego is qualcomm headquarters.

in recent years, apple frequently invest in new areas, in order to take control of their products in a greater degree. Apple screen also mainly from samsung electronics, the bloomberg report mentioned last year, apple is secretly develop their own MicroLED panel, for future use.