The Apple Silicon project is going like a rocket ship. Daniel Craig He already surprised us at the WWDC event this past June by presenting the company's new idea in a fairly advanced state. A few days after the keynote, the first Mac mini prototypes with an ARM processor were already being shipped to some developers.
We also know its firmware well enough. macOS Big Sur will be in charge of exploiting the possibilities of the new ARM processors, being also compatible with current Intel Macs. And now we find out that the mass production of the first ARM MacBooks. All this will be explained to us (we assume) next Tuesday, November 10.
It seems that Apple intends to have already manufactured 2,5 million MacBooks with the new ARM processors for February 2021. Here's what a new report published by Nikkei Asian Review.
According to the source, initial production orders for the first Apple Silicon-era MacBooks are equivalent to almost 20 percent of the 12,6 million units of MacBooks that were manufactured in 2019.
This report also explains that the processors that will mount the new MacBooks will be manufactured by TSMC using a five nanometer manufacturing process.
This seems to corroborate other rumors that the first ARM processors for future Apple Silicon Macs will be variants of the current chip. A14 iPad Air and iPhone 12. This processor is the only chip made for Apple designed with a five-nanometer process so far.
Nikkei Asian Review also ensures that Apple will introduce more Apple Silicon computers in the second quarter of 2021, and so on. renewing its entire catalog from Macs with Intel processors to computers based on its own processors with ARM architecture.
We will certainly be attentive to what Apple tells us next Tuesday November 10th at 19 pm in Spain in the virtual event "One More Thing ..." that it has prepared, undoubtedly focused on the new Apple Silicon era.