As always, 2020 begins with a good wave of news coming to us from CES 2020 (you can follow the event in detail from our partnering in Xataka). Also one of them has been provided by Intel for its new & # 39; Comet Lake & # 39;, the name of the new Core generation class.
The purpose of these operating procedures is to clear the frequency, up to 5 GHz on the Core i7 and bypass the Core i9. They are 14nm chips designed to use 45W of power in their versions of laptops, such as a good choice to be within the future update of the 16-inch MacBook Pro.
Intel has a problem, and that problem is called AMD … or Apple
Intel continues to upgrade its processors as expected, however lately who is getting a lot of fame for their chips by AMD. The manufacturer surprised everyone recently with their newest products, the most recent of which is the 5,625 Mhz Ryzen 9 3900X.
There are no rumors that provoke serious allegations, but I'm pretty sure Apple should look into that incident of AMD surprises. Maybe the race between the x86 and ARM has already improved, but I'm not going to take that out of another secret laboratory in Apple Park it is trying to build Mac prototypes (most laptops) with those ARM processors to see if it will be able to be launched and if there can be a real benefit to working with macOS.
If fulfilled it would be an interesting meeting, that is it can hurt Intel and it's a very good AMD. For developers it wouldn't be extra work because it's based on the same architecture as Intel chips, so we couldn't even call it a change.
It all depends, as I said before, on Apple's plans. From Cupertino they can take a closer look at AMD, but keep in mind that there were rumors he was pointing at 2020 is the year in which we saw the first Mac based on ARM processors. And depending on the performance of that Mac, maybe both Intel and AMD would be surprised by the performance of that chip. What should Mike Filippo do right now?
