Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s founder Morris Chang on Monday confirmed that it’s planning to produce chips with advanced 3nm …
Tag: Apple silicon
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…
The Verge reviews Apple’s new iPad Air 5: ‘More performance than most people will know what to do with’
Apple earlier this month introduced the new iPad Air with the M1 chip, delivering a massive leap in performance. Available in a new array…
CNET reviews Apple’s 5G iPhone SE: Faster than any other phone we’ve tested, including the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
Apple last week announced the new iPhone SE, a powerful new iPhone in an iconic design, with exceptional capabilities and performance…
Benchmarks prove M1 iPad Air 5 matches performance of iPad Pro, runs at full 3.2 GHz
The M1 powering the new iPad Air 5 matches the performance of the M1 iPad Pro at it runs at the full 3.2 GHz clock speed…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple A16 exclusive to iPhone 14 Pro models; iPhone 14 to stick with A15 chip
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today tweeted that Apple plans to keep iPhone 14 models on the current A15 Bionic with A16 going into iPhone 14 Pro …
Ming-Chi Kuo: No new Mac Pro, iMac Pro, or high-end Mac mini until 2023
Uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted on Friday that Apple will not launch a new high-end Mac mini until 2023, as with the Mac Pro and…
Apple’s 4nm M2 chip is on track to launch this year
Apple’s M2 SoC will likely see a launch later this year in an updated family of Macs. It will be fabricated using TSMC’s 4nm process…
What fills the gap left by Apple’s 27-inch iMac discontinuation?
Apple on Tuesday discontinued the 27-inch iMac, leaving the 24-inch machine as the only iMac option. So what fills that gap…
Ming-Chi Kuo: 27-inch Apple display, new Mac mini coming this year; no iMac Pro or Mac Pro until 2023
TF International Securities’ Apple uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today tweeted his predictions for Apple’s new desktop products, a Mac mini …
Apple preps Macs with M2 and super-powered M1 Max chips
As Apple continues eliminating Intel-handicapped Macs from its lineup, the company is said to be prepping Macs with super-powered M1 Max …
More ‘realityOS’ references discovered ahead of Apple’s AR/VR headset
Developers are seeing more references to “realityOS” – the operating system that the headset will run – Within Apple’s code, as the rumored…
SoftBank kills sale of Arm Ltd. to Nvidia over regulatory hurdles; will IPO instead
SoftBank has killed its attempt to sell Arm Ltd. to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia valued at up to $80 billion over regulatory hurdles and will IPO …
Apple’s new secret weapon: The indomitable Macintosh
Apple’s earnings report from its most recent holiday quarter was record-breaking across several metrics, but Macintosh sales are exploding!
