A
pple’s no stranger to introducing
and popularizing new
technologies. The original iMac
wasn’t the first to use USB, but it drove
adoption of the standard. Multitouch
displays existed before the iPhone,
but it was the first real commercial
Apple has been building its ultra-wideband technology into devices, but
it still doesn’t do much... yet. Dan Moren reports
Will 2021 be the year
Apple’s U1 chip goes wide?
product offering it. Sometimes those
technologies take a while to gestate,
though. And there may be no better
example in recent years than Apple’s
take on ultra-wideband, or UWB.
Like those other technologies, ultra-
wideband isn’t new as a concept, but