Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro tablets for 2018 will use an Apple-designed A12X Bionic chip, which is an enhanced version of the regular A12 Bionic chip in the iPhone XS/XS Max/XR smartphones feature a more powerful GPU for faster graphics.
Commercial production has begun on TSMC’s 7nm chip. This is the same chip likely to be found in Apple’s upcoming A12 processor for the 2018 iPhone models.
Stop me if you’ve think you’ve already heard this one: Apple is reportedly exploring ways to replace Intel processors in Mac computers with a version of in-house designed silicon technology that already powers its iOS, watchOS and tvOS devices.
Dialog’s boss told German newspaper Euro am Sonntag that it expects Apple, its top customer, to use its power-management chips for a significant proportion of its devices in 2019 and 2020. In other words, Apple may continue to work with Dialog until its future chip designs are finished.
The company’s semiconductor advances made last year with the introduction of the A11 Bionic chip powering the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X lines should trickle down to new iPads coming down the pike later this year, if a new Bloomberg repot is an indication.
A pair of updated Mac notebooks and a new desktop machine are in tow for release this year, all featuring Apple’s custom in-house designed coprocessors, according to Bloomberg’s sources.
Apple has been included in a planned class action lawsuit against Intel and ARM following revelations that all Mac and iOS devices are affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
The new Intel chipsets add DisplayPort 1.4 compatibility while allow peripherals to fall back on USB 3.1 speeds if not connected to a Thunderbolt 3 host.
There’s just one “slight” problem: the claimed tech was pioneered by Apple’s chip partner TSMC. Is the Korean government harassing Apple for no apparent reason?
Samsung Electronics to reportedly build 14-nanometer chips for Baikal’s newly updated Bitcoin mining hardware.
Apple’s second-generation custom Mac silicon integrates several new controllers and coprocessors onto a single chip.
The circuit board design that debuted in iPhone 8 and iPhone X will trickle down to Apple Watch and Mac next year.
