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Apple to Include its Own Chips Inside More Macs

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

takyon writes:

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: 4, Funny) by requerdanos on Wednesday January 31 2018, @03:45AM (1 child)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 31 2018, @03:45AM (#630812) Journal

    We don't know what any of these chips really do when the chips are down.

    Well, sure we do. Nothing. That's what "down" means in this context.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday January 31 2018, @12:19PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday January 31 2018, @12:19PM (#630917)

    Ah, so it's an undocumented mode in which the CPU becomes a highly efficient NOP machine?