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Tag: SoC

Next year’s iPhones set for major upgrades with A20 chip

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 1:00 pmTuesday, August 12, 2025No Comments

Eternal Materials has secured a packaging order from TSMC for next year’s iPhones and high-end M5 MacBooks…

Apple’s chip trade-secrets lawsuit against startup Rivos can proceed, judge rules

Friday, August 11, 2023 5:29 pm5 Comments

A federal judge in California has allowed Apple’s lawsuit against startup Rivos Inc. to proceed, alleging that Rivos poached Apple engineers…

Apple sues chip startup Rivos alleging employee poaching, trade secret theft

Monday, May 2, 2022 3:09 pmNo Comments

Apple has filed a lawsuit against chip startup Rivos, alleging the firm not only poached Apple employees, but also stole trade secrets …

Apple’s powerful A14 could make iPhone 12 as fast as MacBook Pro

Thursday, January 16, 2020 11:29 am14 Comments

Apple’s A12 SoC was built on a 7nm process, the A13 was made on an enhanced 7nm process, the A14 coming later this year will almost certainly be a 5nm SoC…

Google hires key Apple chip architect to build custom chips for Pixel phones

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 10:26 amTuesday, June 13, 201723 Comments

Google has hired a veteran chip architect away from Apple and is now looking to build its own chips…

As Microsoft and Qualcomm work on ARM-based PCs, the stage is set for Apple A-series Macs

Friday, December 9, 2016 9:58 amFriday, December 9, 201619 Comments

Qualcomm today announced that it is working with Microsoft to bring support for Windows 10…

Apple could transition to ARM chips in Macs, but probably won’t

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 5:30 pmWednesday, November 23, 201643 Comments

With every release of a new iPhone powered by another cutting-edge processor designed by Apple…

Will Apple’s next-gen iPads be faster than Macs?

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 4:26 pmTuesday, October 4, 201633 Comments

Apple has added support for an ARM chip to macOS Sierra, igniting another wave of speculation…

macOS Sierra code suggests Apple could dump Intel processors in Macs for Apple A-series chips

Friday, September 30, 2016 12:55 pmFriday, September 30, 201643 Comments

Could Apple be working on next-generation Mac hardware that would be powered by an in-house designed processor…

Hello, Apple? It’s Mac. Have you forgotten me?

Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:28 pmThursday, September 22, 201640 Comments

Apple has continuously been leaving its Mac line dusty and old…

The iPhone’s new A10 Fusion chip should worry Intel

Friday, September 16, 2016 11:26 amFriday, September 16, 201619 Comments

Apple’s latest generation of smartphone processors has basically caught up with Intel’s laptops CPUs…

When will Apple put Intel’s Kaby Lake chips inside new Macs?

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 4:00 pmWednesday, August 17, 201628 Comments

Claims Intel’s latest Kaby Lake processors may not appear in new Macs until next year…

Apple’s MacBook Pro not likely to sport Intel Kaby Lake processors this year

Tuesday, August 16, 2016 4:55 pmTuesday, August 16, 201622 Comments

At today’s Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and other Intel execs showed off its 7th Generation Core…

Apple A10-powered Macs on the way? Decoding Apple’s WWDC 2016 media invitation

Thursday, June 2, 2016 1:30 pmThursday, June 2, 201655 Comments

If you think Apple’s been slow with Mac innovation you are not alone…

Why Intel’s problem won’t be Apple’s problem

Friday, April 22, 2016 1:03 pm49 Comments

This week, beleaguered Intel announced that it was laying off 12,000 employees

Apple’s emphasis on security makes ARM-powered Macs ‘inevitable’

Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:42 am27 Comments

Apple will offer Macs equipped with an ARM processor, the same silicon used in the iPhone and iPad…

Intel axes 12,000 employees, 11% of its workforce

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 4:27 pmTuesday, April 19, 201626 Comments

Intel expects the program to deliver $750 million in savings this year and annual run rate savings of $1.4 billion by mid-2017…

Why Apple won’t add a third core to their A10 chip next year

Friday, November 13, 2015 4:02 pmFriday, November 13, 20155 Comments

What’s interesting is that even though last year’s A8X chip found inside the iPad Air 2 employed a triple-core CPU design…

Apple’s upcoming ‘A10’ a six-core processor?

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 4:45 pm12 Comments

Apple’s next processor should bear the name ‘A10’ and it may come with as much as six-cores…

Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for Apple iPhone

Saturday, October 17, 2015 2:31 pm21 Comments

Intel now has a thousand people or more working to outfit a 2016 iPhone with its…

Mac sales to grow in enterprise with new Apple A-series-powered Mac

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 9:03 pm73 Comments

A full-fledged Mac OS X running on an Apple A-series processor…

UBS, Summit defend the iPhone cycle as Apple shares slide again

Thursday, August 6, 2015 12:55 pmThursday, August 6, 20156 Comments

Apple shares are back to their downward path…

Will Apple unleash iOS multitasking at WWDC?

Monday, June 8, 2015 8:55 amMonday, June 8, 20155 Comments

We might also see a sneak preview of the iPad Pro….

Apple A9 chip likely driving Globalfoundries 14-nm expansion

Friday, May 22, 2015 5:25 pmFriday, May 22, 201513 Comments

Apple is likely driving the 14-nanometer ramp at Globalfoundries…

Apple is a semiconductor powerhouse; expect the first ARM-based Macs to appear in 2016

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:35 pmTuesday, March 31, 201538 Comments

Apple has become one of the largest semiconductor makers in the world…

The price of getting Apple’s attention: $12 billion

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:26 amTuesday, February 17, 20158 Comments

Lavishing $12 billion on…

Apple’s blowout quarter predicted very accurately by same analyst who predicts ARM-based Macs

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:01 pmWednesday, January 28, 201533 Comments

Apple’s stunning iPhone sales in the December quarter took almost everyone by surprise…

After eating Intel’s mobile lunch, Apple could next devour Qualcomm’s Baseband Processor business

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:02 pmTuesday, January 20, 201511 Comments

Eliminating Qualcomm by creating a custom, in-house baseband chip…

Intel CEO characterizes relationship with Apple as ‘strong’

Friday, January 16, 2015 2:30 pmFriday, January 16, 20159 Comments

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says…

Five barriers that might keep Apple from moving Macs to custom ARM chips

Friday, January 16, 2015 11:27 am12 Comments

Shortly after Apple introduced its first custom A4 Application Processor in 2010…

Apple A-series-powered Macs are not only feasible, they may be inevitable

Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:28 pmFriday, January 16, 201521 Comments

Apple would begin to put its custom ARM-based processors in new Mac OS X systems…

Why Apple dumping Intel processors would be disastrous

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:03 pm48 Comments

Apple will drop Intel processors to better manage the launch cycle…

Why Apple might dump Intel’s x86 for their own A-series chips in future Macs

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 6:01 pmWednesday, January 14, 201532 Comments

Such a move is certainly in Apple’s DNA…

KGI: Apple is designing its own processors for Mac

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:29 pmWednesday, January 14, 201534 Comments

Apple will begin using its own processors for Macs in the next 1-2 years…

Apple A9-powered MacBook Air?

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:27 pmTuesday, December 16, 201459 Comments

Apple is very likely to be on the brink…

Samsung begins stamping out Apple A9 processors in 14nm FinFET in Texas

Friday, December 12, 2014 2:59 pmFriday, December 12, 20149 Comments

Samsung began production of Apple’s A9 in the Austin plant…

Apple’s Apple’s A8 chip in iPhone 6/Plus supports 4K video playback

Monday, November 24, 2014 6:01 pmMonday, November 24, 201420 Comments

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will not be able to display the same level…

Bernstein: Samsung gets Apple’s next-gen iPhone chip business; TSMC gets iPad, ‘iPad Pro,’ and ‘iPhone 6c’

Friday, November 21, 2014 11:26 amFriday, November 21, 20147 Comments

Bernstein believes Apple will likely introduce a larger iPad…

ARM, TSMC announce plans for 64-bit ARM-based processors on 10FinFET tech

Thursday, October 2, 2014 1:28 pmThursday, October 2, 20147 Comments

ARM and TSMC have announced a new multi-year agreement in order to develop…

Semiconductor Advisors: Apple’s 64-bit A8 processor exposes Intel’s shortcomings

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 6:27 pmWednesday, September 17, 201434 Comments

Apple made some significant design improvements with A8 on top of just the hardware shrink…

AnandTech: Apple’s A8 likely packs 6-core PowerVR GPU, clocked at 1.4GHz with 1GB RAM

Monday, September 15, 2014 12:28 pm11 Comments

Apple has begun updating some of their developer documentation…

Why Apple will switch to ARM-based Apple A-series-powered Macs

Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:57 pmWednesday, August 27, 201473 Comments

Somewhere on Apple’s campus, ARM-based Macs are already running OS X…

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