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xGrill | 5 years ago

>>> The report does say that one of the chips Apple is developing will be "much faster" than those used in the iPhone or iPad, though they will not yet be sufficient to replace the fastest Intel chips in the MacBook Pro or Mac Pro

Is it possible that Apple will include both Intel x86 as well as AX processors? Let the A chip handle certain tasks that are low power to be energy efficient and the Intel chip handle everything else? They did something similar with the Touch Bar.

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paxys|5 years ago

Regardless of how many processors they cram in there, the only relevant one is the one powering the OS and applications. Making that ARM-based will be a massive change.

rsynnott|5 years ago

That seems implausible. It's far more likely that they just have a split product line for a while (as they did with the Intel transition; the PowerMac didn't get replaced by the Mac Pro for a while)