Saturday, May 7, 2011

Apple: Intel discharged, New deal ARM

From the U.S. comes a voice that's dramatic, Apple would be thinking about a change of partnership by downloading Intel's upcoming production of MacBook, then establishing an agreement with the rival company ARM, which should provide the new chipset from next year The source of this news would have been detected in site SemiAccurate, always full of news and advances.

The news would not get from any one source but rather estimated as Charlie Demerjian, well known for its advances on the internet, often the fund, with hindsight, this is news to take a very great importance as an effective change of front from Apple would be a very bad blow to Intel and a great blessing for ARM, recently in trouble given the many innovations introduced by Intel in the chipset, which seems to have come at a turning point in the last period.

If Apple decides to change going from Intel to manufacturer ARM, there may be several options regarding the products offered by the manufacturer of components, the former might be a chip dedicated exclusively to Apple diiPad as in the case, the in-house chip Apple is getting excellent feedback to be critical for the quality of materials, above the average of other producers, and the value-priced, which is taken to the house of Cupertino added value than the competition, obviously leaving the services offered, which only very few models will be able to match.

Another possibility would be to use instead, at least for next season, a chip that already exists, the most likely hypothesis is the acquisition of chip designer Samsung, excellent as a whole, an alternative is to use an ARM chip generic core, this hypothesis implausible that Apple is focusing on the originality and uniqueness of the products.

Leaving Intel is not just a matter of chip, the selection factors concerns with broader, as an abandonment of the project based on the x86 architecture and thus the exclusion of all Apple software based solely on this system , who would no longer be offered as an exclusive or Apple compatible terminals.

Aspect to consider is that relating to the processor, in fact, Apple would surely leave even the core i5 and i7, were provided by Intel for this new line for 2011, moving to system-based processor designed by ARM, equally valid, of course, but to be designed to be implemented in a system based entirely on Intel parts in this area.

The choice of Apple might be resulted from faulty processors, provided this year by Intel for the MacBook Pro series, which reported a bug in the SATA controller card chipset called Cougar Point step B2, then replaced with the updated version of Intel coined as Cougar Point chipset step B3.

Image damage that could be costly to Apple, and that seems to have forgiven the mistake of Intel, which pays bitterly, if the news should prove true, an error that could be avoided by being sure to use a fairly common component essential. It was not until the words of one stakeholder, who can confirm or deny the news, for the moment we have only to imagine what will be the consequences of this change and may change as Apple products in relation to the new supplier of hardware course that uses a complementary technology but not quite similar, which imply a change evident in the design of the system as a whole, as well as small details, which we hope will not change the potential of one of the most efficient and comprehensive series of landscape-level notebook professional.

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