Stefan Mileschin

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Bloomberg has rekindled news that Apple has been working on its own chip, and many covered the news claiming that 2021 iPads will get an iPhone chip. Well, they won't as it would not be that powerful to put a 2W TDP chip in a notebook, and instead, the modified version of A14X iPad chip will find its place to the Macbooks of the future. We got a few details confirmed.

The project is not new, Apple has been working on this for years, and Intel knew about it. Our knowledgeable contacts have confirmed the MacBook 2021 will use a 5nm variation of A14X chip for iPad. Of course, as always, complete discretion is obligatory as Apple is not kind to people who share information outside of its dome.

Kalamata might be the codename, and the fact that Apple is using Big Little approach with eight high performance cores codenamed Firestorm, and four energy-efficient Icestorm cores is hardly a surprise.

Having its own homebred chip was always the plan. Apple did this years ago with phones as this was the right way to do it, Samsung copied it, and so did Huawei, the big guys have their own chips and can finetune them for the egosystem.
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