Before we get into the news itself, here is a brief explanation: Apple has been using a chip created by its own engineers since the iPhone 4 (which came equipped with the A4). From then on, with each new iPhone and iPad release we saw a new generation of Apple processors being released: A5, A5X, A6, A6X, A7, A8, A8X, A9, A9X and now the A10 Fusion that equips the 7/7 Plus iPhones.
The performance of these processors has been growing at such an impressive level that, currently, the A10 Fusion has a performance capable of beating MacBooks Air and even the MacBook Pro (released in 2013 and still marketed by Apple).
Remember the story that Apple could abandon the processors of the Intel and start using your own on Macs too? In the past this was still a long way off, but with this A10 Fusion performance, things started to get a little more believable. And just to point out, we're not talking about those boring predictions from analysts who don't understand the ravines of how things work at Apple. Big names like Jean-Louis Gasse (who previously worked as head of product development at Ma) have been talking about this for a while.
Now the folks at TechTastic found (Google Translate) the following reference in core (kernel) from macOS Sierra: CPUFAMILY_ARM_HURRICANE.
The codename Hurricane (Hurricane) does not appear in any documentation of ARM. Except, you see: From the A7, Apple came to name its processors internally. The A7, for example, was called Cyclone (Hurricane); the A8, Typhoon (Tuff); the A9, Twister (Tornado). It doesn't have to be any genius to make the correlation, right?
Oh, but Apple can't put an A10 Fusion on a high-end MacBook Pro. What to say in an iMac. In Mac Pro, so you don't even talk!
My friends, if Apple can put this kind of MacBook Air-depleting performance on a 100% mobile-optimized processor, I have no doubt that if it wants to create something fully desktop-optimized (without worrying so much about energy efficiency, heat dissipation, etc.), for example, can achieve Intel's hair-standing performance!
Maybe it's not time to see Macs with ARM processors yet, but it is undeniable that this switch to Apple makes a lot of sense for a number of issues such as not relying on Intel's release schedule to launch new Macs, further integrate. the software with the hardware (as it has always done with the dual iOS /iGadgets), Among other things. Regardless of timingIt is a fact that if one day is not too distant this transition happens, the tests / preparations for the exchange are already in full swing in Cupertino.
(via iDownloadBlog)
