Apple is rolling out a host of new software at its annual global developers conference Monday plus making official plans to move toward its own chips and away from Intel in future devices.
“Apple will release the first Mac with Apple silicon end of this year, and it expects the transition to take two years,” reports The Verge.
“New Intel-powered Macs are still in the pipeline, so Apple isn’t moving exclusively to ARM-based Macs just yet. Still, this is a big shift for Apple to move away from Intel-based silicon in Macs.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook called the move a “huge leap forward.”
But Apple is hardly new to chips.
“Apple currently uses its own chips on its iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs, and said it had shipped over 2 billion chips so far,” CNBC noted.
“Macs with Apple’s own chips will also be able to run iPhone and iPad software
Apple is embracing so-called ARM processors which TechTarget defines as “one of a family of CPUs based on the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture developed by Advanced RISC Machines (ARM).
“RISC processors are designed to perform a smaller number of types of computer instructions so that they can operate at a higher speed, performing more millions of instructions per second (MIPS). By stripping out unneeded instructions and optimizing pathways, RISC processors provide outstanding performance at a fraction of the power demand of CISC (complex instruction set computing) devices.”
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