Apple
Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets. With their newest chip, Apple is promising class-leading performance and power efficiency once again, with a particular focus on machine learning/AI performance. The launch of the M4 comes as Apple’s compute product lines have become a bit bifurcated. On the Mac side of matters, all of the current-generation MacBooks are based on the M3 family of chips. On...
Apple Announces Q3 FY 2018 Results
This afternoon, Apple announced their earnings for the third quarter of the 2018 fiscal year, and as we’ve all come to expect, they did very well again. Revenue for...
34 by Brett Howse on 7/31/2018
Ian on the iMore Vector Podcast: Discussing Core i9 and Thermal Throttling
On Monday this week I was invited onto the Vector podcast, one of the popular Apple-focused podcasts, run by iMore’s Rene Ritchie. In the podcast we discuss Intel’s product...
12 by Ian Cutress on 7/24/2018
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Family for 2018: More CPU Cores, DDR4, & Same Form Factors
A surprising no-show at this year’s Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference was any kind of hardware refresh for Apple’s Mac products. While WWDC is first and foremost a software...
104 by Ryan Smith on 7/12/2018
Apple Deprecates OpenGL Across All OSes; Urges Developers to use Metal
As has long been the story at One Infinite Loop, what Apple giveth is what Apple taketh, and Apple’s latest rendition of OSes is going to be no exception...
52 by Ryan Smith on 6/5/2018
Apple Announces iOS 12: Siri Suggestions, Faster Performance, 6 Years of Support, & More
Among the many announcements made this week at Apple’s 2018 WWDC Keynote, we saw the unveiling of iOS 12. Apple's event follows Google’s event last month in showcasing their...
15 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/5/2018
The Apple WWDC 2018 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1pm ET)
Kicking off at 10am PT (1pm ET) is Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote speach. We're live from always sunny San Jose, California, to see what Apple has...
21 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/4/2018
Apple Announces Q2 FY 2018 Results: Another Record Quarter
This afternoon, Apple announced their earnings for the second quarter of their 2018 fiscal year, and the company has set a new revenue record for the quarter with $61.1...
27 by Brett Howse on 5/1/2018
New Apple iPad with Pencil Support: From $299 for Students
As part of the Apple announcements today at the education focused event in Chicago, Apple introduced/refreshed an iPad aimed mostly at students. The heart of the iPad is similar...
31 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018
Bringing Vulkan to Apple's Platforms: Khronos Group Announces Open Source MoltenVK 1.0 & SDKs
One of the unfortunate outcomes of Apple's desire to build their own top-to-bottom software ecosystems is that the company has gradually pulled away from supporting common APIs, particularly in...
21 by Nate Oh on 2/26/2018
Apple Announces Q1 FY 2018 Earnings
This afternoon Apple announced their earnings, and for the quarter, they had record revenues of $88.293 billion, which is up 13% from the same quarter a year ago. Margins...
13 by Brett Howse on 2/1/2018
European Union Fines Qualcomm $1.23 Billion for Anti-Competitive Apple Deal
This morning the European Union’s European Commission became the latest regulatory body to fine Qualcomm over anti-competitive actions undertaken by the company. The investigation, which we’ve been expecting the...
36 by Ryan Smith on 1/24/2018
Apple’s $29 iPhone Battery Replacement Program Accelerated, Available From Today
Following widespread criticism for reducing SoC frequency because of battery degradation, Apple announced plans to cut down the price of an out-of-warranty battery replacement for the iPhone 6 and...
96 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2017
Apple Issues Updated Statement On Battery Ageing
Following the attention that Apple had gotten over the past few weeks regarding the discovery of mechanisms that reduce CPU frequency on devices with aged batteries, Apple has now...
103 by Andrei Frumusanu & Anton Shilov on 12/29/2017
Apple Confirms CPU Limitation In Ageing Devices
Over the last week there's been increasing discussion and evidence of Apple's supposed introduction of CPU throttling mechanisms directly related to the battery wear level on Apple iPhones. The...
122 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/21/2017
Apple Starts iMac Pro Sales on Dec. 14: 8/10-Core Models At Launch, 14/18-Core Models Due in 2018
Apple has announced that sales of its previously announced iMac Pro all-in-one workstations will start on Thursday, December 14. On that day, the company is expected to make its...
76 by Anton Shilov on 12/13/2017
Toshiba Signs Deal To Sell Memory Business
After being approved by the board of directors last week, Toshiba's deal to sell their memory business to a consortium led by Bain Capital has been signed and will...
11 by Billy Tallis on 9/28/2017
Toshiba To Proceed With Sale Of Memory Business To Consortium
The latest and possibly final round of bidding for Toshiba's memory business concluded today with Toshiba's board selecting a consortium led by private equity firm Bain Capital as the...
12 by Billy Tallis on 9/20/2017
Apple 2017: The iPhone X (Ten) Announced
The hot button item expected to come from Apple’s announcement today was the set of iPhones being announced. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were the expected models...
173 by Ian Cutress on 9/12/2017
Apple 2017: Announcing a new Apple Watch Series 3, with Intel LTE/Cellular
Today at Apple’s new Steve Jobs Theatre, Apple announced its new Apple Watch, called the Series 3. This is a new model above the Series 2 announced last year...
44 by Ian Cutress on 9/12/2017
The Apple 2017 iPhone Event Live Blog
We're here at Apple's new Steve Jobs theater on their new corporate campus for the company's annual iPhone reveal event
126 by Ryan Smith & Joe Shields on 9/12/2017
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