Dan Pražák While most components of smartphones, such as the processor, display or camera, develop at a rocket pace, the same cannot be said about batteries. Perhaps that is why Apple wants to take over their development in its own hands, and the newly hired battery development specialist Soonho Ahn, who moved to the Californian company from Samsung, should help him with this.
Ahn held the position of senior vice president in the development department of next-generation batteries and innovative materials, specifically at Samsung SDI, a subsidiary of Samsung that focuses on the development of lithium-ion batteries for phones. He worked here as an engineer for three years. Before that, he worked at Next Generation Batteries R&D and LG Chem. Among other things, he also lectured as a professor at the Department of Energy and Chemistry at the South Korean University of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technolog.
Unsurprisingly, Samsung is Samsung SDI's largest customer of batteries. However, even Apple used to have batteries supplied by Samsung in the past, but later started using batteries from the Chinese company Huizhou Desay Battery in iPhones. Among other things, Samsung SDI was also one of the main battery suppliers for the troubled Galaxy Note7. Whether Soonho Ahn, who has now been taken under Apple's wing, was somehow involved in the incident remains a question for now.
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Apple has already indicated in the past that it would like to manufacture its own batteries for its devices. The company has even tried to negotiate terms with mining companies that would supply it with the necessary cobalt reserves. The plans ultimately fell through, but the latest personnel acquisition of a specialist from Samsung indicates that Apple has not yet completely given up on developing its own batteries.
After all, the effort of the Californian giant to get rid of component suppliers has become more and more intense in recent years. It already produces the A-series processors for the iPhone, the S-series for the Apple Watch, as well as the W-series chips for AirPods and Beats headphones. In the future, according to speculation, Apple would like to develop microLED displays, LTE chips and processors for the upcoming Macs.
That is awesome. Was he an expert on the development of the Galaxy Note 7?
In my opinion, it was pulled by Tim Cook and not by Apple :-))))))))))