Some of us have been convinced for years now that ARM Macs are on the way, and there have been increasing indications that 2021 could be the year when it happens. If yesterday’s Bloomberg report is correct, those years of speculation will soon be at an end: Apple is reportedly set to make it official later this month.
I argued yesterday that we probably won’t learn all that much about the actual hardware we can expect …
What developers need to know is about how the transition will work — what sort of assistance Apple will provide. Details of an ARMKit, as it were.
Developers also need to know what hardware will be available to act as a testbed for their apps […]
But none of this will necessarily tell consumers very much about the planned ARM Mac. Apple needn’t reveal how powerful the machine will be, nor where it will sit in the line-up.
But we do know some of the benefits of custom Apple chips based on ARM architecture. In part, we know this from what Apple engineers have said.
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