The latest Apple Silicon news leaks from Appleinsider.com
Apple's short-term plan for
Apple Silicon is reportedly a larger MacBook Pro and iMac refresh in 2021, with a Mac Pro with up to 32 high-performance cores coming at some point in 2022.
Backing up
recent claims that Apple is designing an Apple Silicon-powered
Mac Pro that is half the size of the Intel one, new reports say the company plans dramatically improved Mac processors. These include a potential 32-core Mac Pro in 2022, and an
iMac in late 2021.
According to
Bloomberg, Apple is
expecting to produce Apple Silicon processors that are faster than even the current best performing Intel PCs. Citing unnamed sources said to be familiar with the plans,
Bloomberg says that Apple is developing a series of processors with a series of options.
The sources say that Apple may choose to hold the fastest of its processors until 2022, and that it may release versions with varying numbers of cores. However, at present the plan for 2021 is a new
MacBook Pro, and both an entry-level and high-end iMac.
The highest-end Mac Pro would be some time in 2022, and it may also benefit from greatly increased graphics capabilities. According to
Bloomberg, the highest-end Macs could gain 64- and 128-core graphics processing.