Apple to Announce its personal Mac Processor at WWDC (Late June)

Apple is planning to launch its personal high-performance processors designed for Macs on the 2020 WWDC, held within the week of 22 June, 2020. This could be the step one amongst many towards the alternative of Intel processors and the x86 machine structure from the Apple Mac ecosystem, in the identical style as the corporate changed PowerPC with x86 final decade. Apple has codenamed the method of graduating to the brand new machine structure “Kalamata,” and in addition to detailing the brand new processor and its structure, the corporate may announce a large-scale developer assist initiative to assist Mac software program distributors to transition to the brand new structure in time for the primary Macs with the brand new processors to roll out in 2021.

A Bloomberg report on the brand new processors states that the chips shall be based mostly on the “same technology” as the corporate’s A-series SoCs for iOS units, that means that Apple will leverage the Arm machine structure, and has in all probability developed a excessive efficiency CPU core that may match Intel’s x64 cores in IPC and effectivity. Macs based mostly on the brand new processors, will nonetheless run MacOS and never iOS, which suggests a lot of the clean-break transition woes between PPC and x86 Macs are certain to return, however in all probability higher managed by software program distributors. It additionally stays to be seen how Apple handles graphics. The firm may scale up the Metal-optimized iGPU present in its A-series SoCs on its new Mac processor, whereas additionally giving them the platform I/O functionality to assist discrete graphics from firms corresponding to AMD.