Apple is about to unveil its most important MacBook upgrade in years, the first Macs powered by an ARM-based Apple processor. A new leak shows that the A14X chipset that might power the upcoming MacBook Air and Pro will feature eight cores and clock speeds up to 3.1GHz.
Apple will hold its third virtual press event in as many months next week, the “One More Thing” event that was announced a few days ago. The company is widely expected to finally introduce its biggest MacBook update in years, the one it teased this past summer. The late 2020 MacBooks will not deliver a major external design change, but they will feature a hardware component that’s never been used inside a traditional computer before. Apple’s upcoming MacBook Air and Pro models will feature custom processors based on the A14 Bionic chip that powers the iPhone 12 series and the new iPad Air. Apple has never used A-series processors inside Mac computers before. But Apple confirmed at WWDC 2020 that it will move all of its Macs from Intel to Apple silicon, and it said the transition would begin in late 2020. The A14 Bionic is the best mobile chip in the industry right now, as has been the case for all of its predecessors.
