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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 30 2018, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the does-it-come-with-fish dept.

Apple reportedly planning three more Macs with its own chips inside them

Apple plans to put custom processors inside at least three more Macs by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg. There are no details on what the chips will be used for, but the report says they'll appear in updated laptops and a new desktop.

Though Apple has been making custom chips for its phones, tablets, and wearables for years now, the company is only just starting to bring its house-made chips to the Mac. That started in a small way in 2016 with the high-end MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, which included a chip that was used to run the Touch Bar and Touch ID. Then last month, Apple included a custom chip inside the iMac Pro that handled, among other things, audio, camera processing, and encryption.

The Bloomberg article includes a detailed history of Apple's chip designs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:08PM (#630603)

    Apple desperately wants to own both CPU and GPU. They forced Intel to integrate AMD Radeon onto CPU's. Within a few years, Macs will run custom CPU/GPU--it may not even be ARM.