The first Mac to be powered by an Arm chip should be released in the first half of 2021, according to Ming-Chi Kuo. In a note of which he has the secret, the analyst best informed behind the scenes of Apple announces this news which only confirms an indiscretion of the same Kuo going back to end of 2018. At the time, the launch window was either 2020 or 2021. Ming-Chi Kuo therefore refined the shooting.
Madame Irma of TF Securities said that this new Mac will be released in 12 to 18 months, but without dwelling on the technical details or the first model concerned (a new small MacBook to start?). Kuo nevertheless specifies that Apple has shown more aggressiveness in its R&D investments and the production of 5nm engraved chips, which should beat at the heart of this new Mac. This will also be the case in future iPhone and iPad.
The entire family of Apple laptops already contains an Arm chip, the T2, which secures several vital functions of Macs, such as startup or Touch ID. But the engine of these computers remains an Intel processor, of course. A Mac “all Arm” would leave the founder of Santa Clara on the side of the road, Apple becoming completely in control of its destiny. Intel would also have made a reason (read: Intel confident that Apple will launch its first Mac Arm in 2020).
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