United Kingdom, Sept. 22 -- Apple has said its new suite of chips is designed to give the iPhone 17 series full control over

AI, efficiency and privacy.

The Cupertino-based tech company introduced the A19 series of processors its latest devices, as well as its first wireless chip and updated modem - the N1 and C1X respectively - and Apple has explained this move will give their handsets improved performance in areas like AI tasks.

Speaking with CNBC, Apple vice president of platform architecture Tim Millet said of the new chips: "That's where the magic is. When we have control, we are able to do things beyond what we can do by buying a merchant silicon part."

The A19 Pro chip introduces neural accelerators integrated into each GPU cor...