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I'm mostly interested in the manufacturing technology -- seems like they're doing some kind of friction/ultrasonic/diffusion welding between the titanium frame
by heisenzombie 3y ago
I'm mostly interested in the manufacturing technology -- seems like they're doing some kind of friction/ultrasonic/diffusion welding between the titanium frame and the aluminium insides.
That's a notoriously difficult weld to make:
https://doi.org/10.1177/14644207211010839 https://doi.org/10.1177/14644207211010839
I would love to know what process they're using and how they've got it reliable!
- buildbot 3y agoApple is fairly silent on these kinds of things, but it really is impressive how much they invest in leading edge manufacturing - huge CNC factories, this insane mixed metal weld, laser precision drilling…