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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   
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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• Re:Impressive if you think about it Re:Impressive if you think about it (Score: 2, Interesting) by petecox on Saturday April 25 2020, @12:20AM (1 child)

  by petecox (3228) on Saturday April 25 2020, @12:20AM (#986772)

  I am looking forward for AMD64 phones

  tried and failed, Intel wanted to cram an Atom into a phone - turns out there was no market. If there's ever a challenger to ARM on mobile, think RISC-V (and we're still perhaps half a decade away).

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• Re:Impressive if you think about it (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @11:37AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @11:37AM (#986885)

  AMD could use RISC-V as well. It would be interesting.

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