A few hours before WWDC, which is not yetjust a rumorcould well be made official this evening. Apple should on this occasion announce the transition from Intel chips to ARM chips for the processors of its computers.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, known for being very well informed about the Apple brand, has just announced that the first machine that will run with an ARM chip will be the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro. The latter could be released during the fourth quarter of this year, or early 2021.
WWDC could help better inform developers
According to him, this development will also happen soon for iMacs running on Intel but he has no information regarding the launch date of these new devices. In any case, he indicates that it will take between 12 and 18 months for the changeover to be fully achieved.
The insider also provided information on the performance of ARM chips and those are very promising. It seems in fact that they would be 50 to 100% superior to Intel chips. Figures to be taken with a grain of salt but which would indicate a real revolution.
We'll wait for Apple to tell us more about this. The Cupertino company could also specifically address developers during WWDC this week. The latter will indeed have to learn to work with the new ARM processors.
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