Bloomberg News reported, Apple will present it online this yearWWDC 2020 eventOn, officially announcedMac products using Arm architecture processorsplan, so that Mac developers can prepare for this in advance.
Previously, many analysts believed that Apple would launch a MacBook with an Arm architecture processor as early as the end of this year or early next year. It is expected to gradually shift from the current Intel processors designed with x86 architecture to Arm architecture processors, allowing Mac series models to have lower power consumption and longer standby battery life while maintaining the same or higher computing performance.
According to Bloomberg News, Apple chose to announce this news at this year's WWDC 2020 event, which is expected to allow Mac developers to prepare earlier.Project Catalyst design planIt is expected that more apps originally running on the iOS platform can be successfully ported to Mac devices for use, and can even be operated by mouse and keyboard, thereby replacing the original touch-only operation mode.
In addition to Apple, Microsoft has also cooperated with Qualcomm and Arm to enable Windows 10 to run natively on Arm architecture hardware. Obviously, the performance of hardware designed for the Arm architecture can already meet most computing needs on traditional laptops.
Currently, manufacturers such as Samsung, Microsoft, HP, and Asus are promoting always-connected laptops based on Arm architecture processors, which can smoothly meet the needs of most laptop operations and usage, and can even cope with multi-tasking and gaming operations that require further processing of complex image content, indicating that replacing laptop processors with Arm architecture designs will not cause too many problems.
However, Apple is not expected to completely abandon its existing cooperation with Intel in the short term, but will adopt a parallel usage model. However, if the performance of Arm architecture processors can be matched in the future and the instruction set functions continue to improve, Apple may consider introducing Arm architecture processor designs in more Mac products.
