Apple on Tuesday unveiled MacBooks powered by its new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, in a rare January product announcement…
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Watch Apple’s announcement of the new M2 Pro, M2 Max, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro
Apple on Tuesday unveiled the new Mac mini, supercharged by M2 and the all-new M2 Pro. With the M2 chip, Mac mini is even more powerful…
Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro powered by M2 Pro and M2 Max
Apple today announced the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, Apple’s next-generation pro silicon that brings…
Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max with up to 96GB of unified memory
Apple today announced M2 Pro and M2 Max, two next-generation SoCs (systems on a chip) that take the breakthrough power-efficient…
Major Apple supplier TSMC Q4 profit up 78%, beats market expectations
Taiwanese chipmaker and major Apple supplier TSMC posted a 78% increase in fourth-quarter net profit on Thursday, as strong sales…
Apple likely to exclusively offer 3nm chips in 2023 as Android falls even further behind
Apple is likely to be the only major device maker in 2023 to adopt 3nm process technology from TSMC as Android falls even further behind…
Apple Silicon-supplier TSMC celebrates start of 3nm mass production
Apple Silicon-supplier TSMC will hold a ceremony on December 29th to celebrate the start of mass production using its 3nm process…
Apple reportedly pulled plug on next-gen GPU in iPhone 14 Pro’s A16 Bionic chip after engineering error
In 2021, Apple’s chip development team hit a serious setback in the development of the A16 Bionic chip’s graphics processor (GPU) that…
Time for Apple to kill off the Mac Pro?
The Mac Pro is one of the few remaining Intel-handicapped Macs with no Apple Silicon replacement on the market, even it’s past…
Where’s Apple’s new Mac Pro?
Apple in June 2020 announced plans to dump big, hot, slow, inefficient Intel processors. So, where’s Apple’s new Mac Pro?
TSMC revenue surges 50% in November despite quixotic ‘Zero COVID’ lockdowns
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported a 50% increase in November sales, a month challenged by the CCP’s quixotic…
Apple slated to use one third of TSMC’s advanced chips made in Arizona plant
American customers such as Apple pushed TSMC to offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens…
Major Apple supplier TSMC’s founder confirms advanced 3nm chips will be produced in its new Arizona factory
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s founder Morris Chang on Monday confirmed that it’s planning to produce chips with advanced 3nm …
VMware Fusion 13 released with native support for Apple Silicon Macs
The VMware Fusion 13 product line: Fusion 13 Pro and Fusion 13 Player, for both Intel as well as the latest Apple Silicon Macs…
Apple plans to source chips from TSMC’s Arizona plant in 2024
Apple is planning to begin sourcing chips for its devices from a plant under construction in Arizona, marking a major step toward…
Apple supplier TSMC preps another multibillion-dollar chip factory investment in Arizona
A major Apple supplier, chip fabricator Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip maker, is preparing…
Major Apple supplier TSMC mulls Japan expansion as China tensions continue
Major Apple supplier and chip manufacturer TSMC is weighing a potential expansion in Japan, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday…
Major Apple supplier TSMC profit jumps 80% in Q3, beating expectations
Major Apple Silicon supplier TSMC posted an 80% surge in third-quarter net profit on Thursday. The Taiwanese chipmaker was buoyed…
Apple is well past its two-year goal to transition from Intel to Apple Silicon Macs
On June 22, 2020, Apple announced the Macintosh’s transition from hot, slow, inefficient Intel to vastly superior Apple Silicon that…
Apple prepares for 2nm chips as soon as 2025
With TSMC, Apple is preparing for world-beating Apple Silicon 2nm chips. TSMC’s new 2nm node is scheduled to enter volume production in 2025…
Apple’s M3, A17 chips will be first to employ TSMC’s cutting-edge 3nm tech
Apple will be the first company to use TSMC’s N3E, an upgraded version of TSMC’s current 3-nanometer (3nm) tech in the M3 and A17 for…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: The Mac is now a totally different product
Popular Mechanics Ryan D’Agostino sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and discussed the Mac in the era of Apple Silicon, your right to…
Apple reportedly preps all-new Mac Pro powered by M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme chips
Apple reportedly had an M1 Ultra-powered Mac Pro ready to ship, but will instead ship its new Mac Pro with M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme chips…
Apple supplier TSMC’s Q2 profit up 76%
Major Apple supplier TSMC posted a 76.3% rise in second-quarter net profit on Thursday on high demand for the Taiwanese chip…
Gartner: Apple’s U.S. Mac shipments grew 19.5% year-over-year in Q2
Apple’s worldwide Mac shipments grew 9.3% year over year in Q2 and U.S. Mac shipments grew 19.5% over the same time period…
Amazon announces general availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M1 Mac instances are now generally available (GA). Built on Apple Silicon Mac mini computers…
Apple supplier TSMC’s sales surge 44%
Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue, posting NT$534.1 billion…
Apple supplier TSMC to fabricate ultra-advanced 2nm chips by 2025
Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) says it will begin the production of ultra-advanced 2nm chips by 2025…
Apple dominates Arm-based notebook processor market with nearly 90% revenue share
Apple has established itself as the dominant market leader in Arm-based notebook processors with 87.7 percent revenue share. Apple’s…
macOS Ventura gives Linux VMs the ability to run x86 apps via Rosetta
Linux virtual machines (VMs) are getting a new feature in macOS Ventura: the ability to run apps written for x86 processors using Rosetta …
Apple unveils M2 with breakthrough performance and capabilities
Apple today announced M2, beginning the next generation of Apple silicon designed specifically for the Mac…
Apple owns dominant 62% revenue share of tablet applications processors
The global tablet applications processor (AP) market grew 12 percent to $3 billion in the calendar year 2021 and is dominated by Apple with…
Apple’s A16 chip said to stick to 5nm process; M2 will make leap to 3nm
Apple’s chip plans for its upcoming A16 and M2 chips, as well as the “final” variant in the M1 family of chips…
What’s coming in Apple’s 2022 MacBook Air
Analysts expect Apple to introduce a new redesigned MacBook Air, powered, of course, by superior Apple Silicon, in 2022…
Canalys: Apple is now No.1 in worldwide PC market share
Canalys has Apple at No.1 in worldwide PC market share, because the research firm correctly counts tablets like iPad as personal computers…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple abandons plan to redesign Mac mini
Apple has reportedly abandoned plans to redesign the Mac mini as uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that the next-gen Mac mini will likely…
Researchers find minor flaw in Apple Silicon chips
Security researchers have discovered a minor flaw in Apple Silicon chips that could lead to limited data leakage, however there is…
Apple sues chip startup Rivos alleging employee poaching, trade secret theft
Apple has filed a lawsuit against chip startup Rivos, alleging the firm not only poached Apple employees, but also stole trade secrets …
Apple Silicon fab TSMC expected to start 2nm chip production in 2025
TSMC, the fabricator of Apple Silicon chips, is set to make significant enhancements to its chipmaking process when it begins 2nm production…
Led by Johny Srouji, Apple’s silicon team are only interested in the best
Apple’s critically-acclaimed M1 family of chips, which are far more energy-efficient silicon than Intel’s, enable Macs to run much faster…
Ars Technica reviews new Mac Studio: ‘Shows us exactly why Apple left Intel behind’
Apple earlier this month introduced Mac Studio, an entirely new Mac desktop powered by M1 Max and the new M1 Ultra, the world’s…
Apple’s powerhouse M1 Ultra chip is bad news for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia
Apple earlier this month announced M1 Ultra, the next giant leap for Apple silicon and the Mac. Featuring UltraFusion — Apple’s innovative…
