Over at CES, Intel unveiled some very cool new hardware that could lead to a nice bump for Apple’s recently-released 16-inch MacBook Pro.
The company teased its new “Comet Lake H” series 10-th generation processors. These function as a h45 watt, higher-performance version of the 10th-generation Comet Lake mobile processors announced last year, but would also be perfectly suited to the 16-inch MacBook Pro, which currently uses Intel’s current 9th-generation 45-watt mobile processors.
Should Apple follow suit and offer an update to the 16-inch MacBook Pro, it’s thought that the 10-generation Core i7 chips could hit speeds up to 5.0GHz. The Core i7-9750H found in today’s 16-inch MacBook Pro tops out at 4.5GHz, so that’s about 11 percent faster.
The updated Comet Lake architecture also allows for slightly faster LPDDR4 memory, which can help improve performance. Finally, it would definitely improve graphics performance, and allow for better communication with AMD’s Radeon Pro graphics systems to boot.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.