Qualcomm on Monday is celebrating recently announced Ookla download speed tests that pit its Snapdragon 845 against the Intel XMM 7480. The former is found on high-end Android phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S9, while the latter is on the Apple iPhone X, among others devices.
Even though Apple's refreshed MacBook Pro models for 2018 feature an iFixit-identified JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 controller from Intel, unveiled in January as part of the Titan Ridge platform, the notebooks don't truly support the DisplayPort 1.4 specification.
MediaTek is expected to supply Wi-Fi chips to Apple for the HomePod speaker. The Taiwanese company has bigger plans, however, as it hopes to replace Qualcomm as one of Apple's modem chip providers for iPhone, according to DigiTimes.
Intel is now manufacturing modems that will be used for the 2018 iPhone lineup. The XMM 7560 is the first Intel modem produced in-house and first to support both CDMA and GSM. Despite this, Apple will still rely on Qualcomm for some of its modem orders despite continued legal problems between the two companies, according to Nikkei.
MacBook Pro inventory has begun to dwindle ahead of WWDC and now a more powerful device labeled “MacBookPro14,3” has appeared in supposed Geekbench listings, identifying the CPU as a six-core 2.21 GHz Core i7-8750H with Turbo Boost up to a whopping 4.1 GHz.
Apple's been hiring former Intel engineers for a hardware engineering lab in Oregon. This news is likely to fuel rumors that Apple's planning to ditch Intel to make its own chips for future Macs.
The future of Mac could look like iOS. That’s the findings of a new report that examines Apple’s new Star project, which is said to be in the prototype stage. If details of this project come to fruition, it could change the very definition of what most of us think of as a computer as we head into the next decade.
Tim Cook is (again) saying MacBooks and iPads won't converge into a new platform.
According to people familiar with Apple's research, they'll start using custom chips in Mac models starting in 2020, replacing processors from longtime partner and industry leader Intel.
In spite of assurances from Intel that software fixes for the recently publicized vulnerabilities in CPU designs would not result in substantial performance penalty, Apple has nevertheless found itself in the middle of a legal brouhaha over Meltdown and Spectre over in Israel.
Following the quite public concern over the "Spectre" and "Meltdown" vulnerabilities found in Intel (and other) processors, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich penned an open letter to reaffirm the company's commitment to security.
Apple has issued their first public statement regarding the design flaw present in nearly all computers and mobile devices.