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Apple’s gigantic M1 Ultra chip breathes new life into Moore’s law

In early March, Apple announced the M1 Ultra chip, the next giant leap for Apple silicon and the Mac. Featuring UltraFusion — Apple’s innovative packaging architecture that interconnects the die of two M1 Max chips to create a system on a chip (SoC) with unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities — M1 Ultra delivers breathtaking computing power to the new Mac Studio while maintaining…

M1 Pro and M1 Max: The most powerful chips Apple has ever built

Apple today announced M1 Pro and M1 Max, the next breakthrough chips for the Mac. Scaling up M1’s transformational architecture, M1 Pro offers amazing performance with industry-leading power efficiency, while M1 Max takes these capabilities to new heights. M1 Pro and M1 Max are the most powerful chips Apple has ever built, delivering unprecedented performance and power efficiency. The CPU in M1…

Apple-designed ARM-based Macs to be announced at WWDC

Apple is preparing to announce a shift to its own Apple-designed ARM-based main processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel, as early as this month at WWDC 2020 which begins on June 22nd, Bloomberg News reports, citing “people familiar with the plans.”

Apple’s ARM-based A13 Bionic SoC is fabricated by TSMC

Mark Gurman for Bloomberg:

Unveiling the initiative, codenamed Kalamata, at the…

Macs powered by 5nm Apple A14 processors coming next year

Apple is prepping al-new Macs with the company’s own next-gen A14 processors by next year, Bloomberg News reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.” Apple’s foundry partner TSMC will handle the manufacturing as usual.

Back in February, Apple analyst Ming Chi Kuo said in a note to investors this morning that Apple’s first ARM-based Mac featuring an Apple-designed processor is set to be…

Apple’s MacBookIn a research note analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today, Apple plans to launch several ARM-powered notebooks and desktop Macs in 2021. Kuo believes Apple’s move away from Intel processors will significantly enhance the Mac’s competitive advantage, allow Apple to free the Mac from Intel’s rather stagnant processor roadmap, reduce costs of processors by 40 to 60 percent, and provide Macs…

Jean-Louis Gassée: What it would take for Apple to ARM all Macs

For years, rumors have swirled that Apple would dump sloth-like Intel and transition to ARM-powered Macs with Apple-designed processors. Late last month, Apple supply-chain uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrotes that Apple plans to release a Mac with an Apple-designed processor in the first half of next year.

Jean-Louis Gassée for Monday Note:

Apple’s home-grown ARM processors will replace x86 Intel…

Apple dumping Intel for ARM-powered Macs would be a good thing

Apple’s MacBook

While it would be a huge task, Apple dumping Intel would be a good thing for ARM-powered Macs, but as with most things, there would be difficulties and downsides.

Still, Apple’s done it before – twice – first from Motorola 68000-series processors to PowerPC and then from PowerPC to Intel.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for ZDNet:

Apple’s probably in the best position it’s ever been to make…

Apple-designed ARM-based Macs are coming, but why?

For years, rumors have swirled that Apple would dump sloth-like Intel and transition to ARM-based Macs powered with Apple-designed processors. Now, just this week, Apple supply-chain uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes that that Apple plans to release a Mac with an Apple-designed processor in the first half of next year.

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If you look closely, you can see lots of signs of the direction Apple has…