In the coming years, Apple may remove Intel chips in favor of its own design.
A new report released Wednesday, the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes that by 2016, the market may appear Mac computers and laptops based on own Apple decisions . In the meantime, its processors are used only in mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It is reported that in order to achieve the performance level somewhere between processor series Intel Atom and Intel Core i3 Apple will be required next year or two.
It is worth noting that the rumors about Apple's transition to Intel processors on its own ARM-decision appeared long ago and intensified in 2012, when the company introduced the first 64-bit processor A7 for mobile devices. B
Those ARM-decisions could be processors A9X and A10X, which will also find their way into a tablet iPad. Production of the first start this year at the production facilities TSMC 16-nm process technology, whereas the release of Apple A10X using a 10-nm process technology in 2016 will be engaged by the Korean giant Samsung.
Earlier, sources reported that Apple has developed a fully equivalent OS X operating system for ARM and even tests on prototypes of its new computers.
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