> We tapped in some friends in the additive manufacturing industry, who said it wasn’t quite like any metal 3D printing they’d seen before. Their best guess is that Apple’s using a binder or aerosol jet process in addition to some after-printing machining.
I’m curious who they talked to. I’m no expert but this photo [1] looks like laser sintering. It’s got the telltale melt pools and the laser scanning direction from hatch passes
Maybe Apple has figured out economic electron beam melting at scale?
I’m curious who they talked to. I’m no expert but this photo [1] looks like laser sintering. It’s got the telltale melt pools and the laser scanning direction from hatch passes
Maybe Apple has figured out economic electron beam melting at scale?
[1] https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2025/09/20111617/USBC-...