Big news from Apple today:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020...ay-from-intel/
They're finally doing what has been long speculated and moving from Intel to their own A-Series, ARM-based, chipsets.
It means Apple now have even more control over their hardware but it'll be interesting to see if they do for their Macs what they've managed to do with their iOS devices and get huge performance gains. As Ars points out their own chipsets have blown away their rivals with their 'cheaper' iPhone still outperforming the latest Android flagships:
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So far, Apple's chip division has excelled in every market it has entered. In the world of smartphones, the company's SoCs are easily a generation ahead of the best Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek have to offer. Apple's most dominant smartphone showing is probably the iPhone SE, a $400 iPhone that will out-perform $1200 Android phones thanks to the A13 Bionic SoC.
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It's no sure thing they can do the same with a higher power envelope but if they can they the next generation of Macs might be quite something. Especially when it comes to battery life for the performance they get.