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How Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry

How Apple’s custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry

Slide from Apple’s presentation revealing the Apple A7

Daniel Eran Dilger for AppleInsider:

After delivering just the first three generations of its custom ARM Application Processors between 2010 and 2012, Apple had already reached parity with market-leading mobile chip designers, even while breaking from the Cortex-A15 road map established by ARM to launch its own new Swift core.

Apple’s next…

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Apple could transition to ARM chips in Macs, but probably won't

Apple could transition to ARM chips in Macs, but probably won’t

“With every release of a new iPhone powered by another cutting-edge processor designed by Apple, the rumbling grows. It’s amplified by the perception that the Mac is being delayed and hamstrung by the moves of the Mac’s chip supplier, Intel,” Jason Snell writes for Macworld. “It’s the theory that, one of these days, Apple is going to break from Intel and power its Macs with an Apple-designed…

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Will Apple's next-gen iPads be faster than Macs?

Will Apple’s next-gen iPads be faster than Macs?

“Apple has added support for an ARM chip to macOS Sierra, igniting another wave of speculation that it may ship ARM-powered Macs to complement its ARM-powered iOS devices,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “The kernel release notes for macOS 10.12 tells us that the OS now supports a new ARM chip family, code-named ‘Hurricane’. This is likely to be a new Apple-designed processor, given that…

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macOS Sierra code suggests Apple could dump Intel processors in Macs for Apple A-series chips

macOS Sierra code suggests Apple could dump Intel processors in Macs for Apple A-series chips

“Could Apple be working on next-generation Mac hardware that would be powered by an in-house designed processor based on CPU blueprints from British fabless semiconductor maker ARM Holdings plc?” Christian Zibreg reports for iDownloadBlog. “That’s exactly the conclusion one could reach by looking closely at code strings in the macOS Sierra kernel, discovered by Dutch outlet TechTastic.nl.”

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Hello, Apple? It's Mac. Have you forgotten me?

Hello, Apple? It’s Mac. Have you forgotten me?

“Apple has continuously been leaving its Mac line dusty and old,” Ezra Reschke writes for AppleBlend. “To put it simply, the Mac line has one too many entry points.”

“Apple’s Mac line currently stands with the MacBook being the student and lightweight business user’s Mac, the MacBook Air being the mid student, business, and consumers entry point and the MacBook Pro being the power user…

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The iPhone's new A10 Fusion chip should worry Intel

The iPhone’s new A10 Fusion chip should worry Intel

“In a game of chess, there are occasions when you’ll have almost your entire army of pieces still on the board, but positioned in such a way that their systematic downfall is all but assured. As The Matrix’s Agent Smith put it to an overweening police lieutenant, ‘your men are already dead,'” Vlad Savov writes for The Verge. “We may be experiencing such a moment in the tech industry…

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When will Apple put Intel's Kaby Lake chips inside new Macs?

When will Apple put Intel’s Kaby Lake chips inside new Macs?

“Claims Intel’s latest Kaby Lake processors may not appear in new Macs until next year men Apple could do worse than to take steps to reassure Mac users,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.

“Mac users are worried about the future of the platform,” Evans writes. “They are unhappy that new Mac models have become less predictable than iPhones, and they can’t understand why PC makers…

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Apple's MacBook Pro not likely to sport Intel Kaby Lake processors this year

Apple’s MacBook Pro not likely to sport Intel Kaby Lake processors this year

“At today’s Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and other Intel execs showed off its 7th Generation Core, Kaby Lake,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “For those unfamiliar with Kaby Lake, it is the third chip manufactured using Intel’s 14-nanometer process, following Broadwell and Skylake. It’s a semi-tock with optimized microarchitecture, offering support for Thunderbolt 3, native…

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