At long last, Apple will phase out of using Intel processors and begin making Macs running on the company’s own chips. During the first day of WWDC, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a shift to Apple Silicon, with technologies in place to run existing Intel apps with Rosetta 2. Cook described the three major transitions […]
Category: Processors
The rumor mill has Apple introducing its Arm-based custom chips for Macs at WWDC, and it’s thought that the first Arm-based Macs will be a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and an iMac with a redesigned form factor that could launch in the fourth quarter of 2020 or early in 2021 at the earliest. Per Bloomberg (1) […]
With Apple widely expected to release its first 5G iPhones later this year, a surprised has surfaced via a rumor that Apple might not be using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 modem, but could go with the Snapdragon X60 mode. Apple is also rumored to be partnering with TSMC, which will start manufacturing Apple’s custom A14 processor […]
In a somewhat quiet update, Apple on Monday announced a new graphics processing unit option for the 16-inch MacBook Pro notebook. Users can now order an AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, complete with 8GB of HBM2 memory, and 40 compute units, as a discrete processor. The new option stands as 75 percent faster than the Radeon […]
Apple could announce its long-rumored shift to ARM processors at its WWDC event this month according to a new report. The report, filed by Bloomberg, notes that ARM-based hardware isn’t expected until 2021. Still, the ARM-based Mac is thought to be based on TSMC’s 5nm chip fabrication process. Apple is said to be working on […]