Apple’s third fall 2020 event, „One more thing,“ will be held on Tuesday, November 10. Apple held events in September and October to…
Apple’s third fall 2020 event, „One more thing,“ will be held on Tuesday, November 10. Apple held events in September and October to introduce new iPads, Apple Watches, iPhones, and the HomePod mini, and this November event is expected to be all about the Mac. Rumors about Apple’s planned transition to Arm-based Macs have circulated for years now, and in June at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple made it official. Future Macs will adopt Apple Silicon chips, with Apple doing away with the Intel chips in current Macs. Apple is designing its own Apple Silicon chips, which are similar to the A-series chips used in iPhones and iPads. The first Apple Silicon chips will be built on the 5-nanometer A14 chips that were introduced in the iPhone, with TSMC to manufacture the chips. According to Apple, Apple Silicon chips will bring a new level of performance with Macs that are more powerful and more energy efficient for improved battery life. Apple’s goal is to deliver the highest possible performance with the lowest power consumption. Apple’s custom chips will provide best-in-class security with the Secure Enclave, and Apple is also designing its own GPUs for better performance with pro apps and games. Apple plans to include Neural Engines and Machine Learning Accelerators to make Macs ideal platforms for machine learning, with Apple also including a high-quality image signal processor, high-performance DRAM, unified memory, and cryptography acceleration. Over the course of the next two years, Apple plans to transition its entire Mac lineup to Apple Silicon chips. Rumors suggest the first Macs that will be updated with the new technology will be the 13-inch MacBook Air and the 13-inch MacBook Pro. Reliable sources that include Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg have targeted these two models as the first to transition, and we are expecting to see refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models at the November event. In 2021, we are expecting redesigned 14.1-inch and 16.1-inch MacBook Pro models with a new look and mini-LED display technology, but the first Apple Silicon Macs will be more modest processor-focused updates.
