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Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year

posted by janrinok on Friday April 24 2020, @07:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the replacing-the-Apple's-core dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

CNet:

Apple will start selling Macs that use in-house processors in 2021, based on ones in upcoming iPhones and iPad Pros, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The company is apparently working on three of its own chips, suggesting a transition away from traditional supplier Intel.

The initial batch of custom chips won't be on the same level as the Intel ones used in high-end Apple computers, so they're likely to debut in a new type of laptop, the report noted. These processors could have eight high-performance cores and at least four energy-efficient cores, respectively codenamed Firestorm and Icestorm.

Just another brick in the wall[ed garden]?

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2020, @01:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2020, @01:04PM (#986455)

    Do you have a source for that? What about the ARM servers we're starting to see in AWS?

    In certain benchmarks, the iPad Pro is pretty close to the Macbooks. Isn't that all the evidence needed?

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