Apple will reportedly launch ARM-based Mac in 2021 based on A14 SoC

23 April 2020
Is currently working on custom A14 processors that will power this year's iPhones and at least one Mac next year.

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Quote, "The chipsets will be manufactured by TSMC on the company's 5nm fabrication process."

...Whilst Intel are engulfed with 10nm problems. Intel are losers.

Stick to your 14++++++++ nm, Intel.

    Whether this strategy benefits Apple in the long run remains to be seen, but this move touted a few years ago is indicative of the monopolistic practices of Intel, and with Intel believing it was game, set, and match for them.

    Intel in its sheer arrogance, hadn't the slightest inclination that just perhaps it's competitors would some day return hot on its heels, upon having released its first Core generation CPU back in 2006, when AMD was in effect in ICU/ITU.

    Never mind AMD as its staunchest competitor, Intel downplayed the recognition that ARM chips would have absolute dominance in the handheld device sector, and TSMC would steamroll past Intel in its silicon fabrication prowess.

    With Apple slowly cutting ties with Intel (with Apple first purchasing Intel's lazy 5G modem business), Intel has only Microsoft and its uneasy Wintel partnership to ensure its survival.

    The unknown question is, how long can the venerable x86 architecture keep going ?

    The ultimate test shall be if Apple in time can get Adobe Creative Cloud applications running with equivalent performance on their custom ARM chips as compared to the their offering on the x86-64 architecture, only then can Apple's migration be hailed a success.

    So for now the jury is still out on Apple's desktop migration to ARM.

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      • kammem2
      • pWY
      • 23 Apr 2020

      ipad pro eventually will become macbook air

        Mackbook 12 that does not throttle to oblivion (-50% CPU clock)? Colour me interested.

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          • AngryLithuanian
          • AJu
          • 23 Apr 2020

          So they are finally doing it, slowly shifting towards having only one SOC and using it's different versions with different product categories to minimise costs and cover possibly every device to make even more profit. Smart.

            Well it have touch based MacOS? Or do you still need iPad!! Because iPad is there only because of touch! It is pointless if this news is true!

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