Whenever Apple releases a new beta of its operating systems, there are technicians who use reverse engineering to go into the code of the new version to try to find news that has not yet been officially presented by the company.
Today's finding is about some references to AMD processors seen in the code of the new beta version of macOS Catalina 10.5.4. It's somewhat intriguing, since all Macs currently use Intel processors.
In recent months, an increasing number of references to AMD processors have been discovered in the macOS Catalina code. They were already seen last November in the 10.15.2 beta version and now they are reaffirmed in the new 10.15.4 beta version.
Considering that all Macs currently mount Intel processors, these reviews They cause a series of speculations that perhaps Apple is considering launching the next Macs with AMD processors.
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They are obviously just speculation without any confirmation from the company. Today AMD supplies the graphics processors that some MacBook Pro, iMac and iMac Pro mount.
Many of these References found contain codenames of APU AMD sets such as Picasso, Raven, Renoir and Van Gogh. These APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) Chipsets are sets of CPU and GPU processors on a single chip.
A few weeks ago the rumor that Apple is planning to announce a high-end Mac for gaming at WWDC 2020. If this rumor were true, this new Mac could mount an AMD APU. But at the moment everything is speculation.
It's worth noting that no rumors have been heard about new Macs based on AMD processors. It may be that these discovered reviews are simple internal tests and the speculations that result from this discovery are totally wrong and without foundation.