Apple poaches a Samsung executive to help lead its own battery work
Apple has reportedly poached an executive from Samsung SDI, Samsung Electronics’ battery-making affiliate, to assistance Pb its ain battery work.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman in addition to Sam Kim accept the story:
Soonho Ahn joined Apple inwards Dec equally global caput of battery developments, afterwards working equally a senior vice president at Samsung SDI since 2015, per his LinkedIn profile.
At Samsung SDI, Ahn led evolution of lithium battery packs in addition to worked on ‘next-generation’ battery technology, the profile says.
The hire suggests potential battery advances in addition to a continuation of Apple’s years-long strategy that calls for reduced reliance on third-party components.
Both Samsung SDI in addition to Apple accept also been inwards talks to secure sources of cobalt, which is a primal factor of battery packs, direct from miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The surface area is responsible for to a greater extent than than one-half of the world’s cobalt.
Samsung Electronics is the largest shareholder of Samsung SDI in addition to its biggest client simply the theatre sells its batteries to other clients, too. Samsung SDI received bad press following a 2017 regain that it made the master copy battery inwards Samsung’s exploding Note 7.
And independent investigation discovered that the Note vii battery was irregularly sized in addition to had a flaw inwards the upper correct corner that could drive a brusk circuit.
Apple has used batteries from Samsung SDI inwards the past.
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