Apple Notes
Apr 26, 2018
3 minutes
Column: Brad Watts
Well the cat’s out of the bag. As per my previous suggestion; Apple ditching third party-manufactured CPUs is now looking very likely. Last issue we looked over the ARM-based T2 chip in the iMac Pro, a processor designed by Apple to take care of encryption and SSD control, face recognition, startup security and access to the startup drive, and indeed, audio control. With the T2 taking care of processor intensive chores like encryption, there’s greater headroom for the primary CPU.
According to every tech media body
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