A new rumor about a new Apple device. The company tries everything it can to hide its new jobs to avoid giving clues to the competition, but that is almost impossible.
There are many technicians who work in the different Apple projects, both internal and external in the multiple suppliers and manufacturers, and in the end, things always leak. Today's refers to the processor that will mount this year's new 13-inch MacBook Pro.
It appears that Apple is working on a new version of its 13-inch MacBook, after the launch of its older 16-inch brother in October last year. There is a clue as to the processor that the laptop will mount: Intel's XNUMXth generation Ice Lake.
2020 13 "Macbook Pro
> i7-1068NG7 2.3GHz base 4.1GHz boost 28W
> 32GB of RAM
> 2TB SSD pic.twitter.com/o4k6ymc6oJ- _rogame (@_rogame) February 15, 2020
This week, a common leaker in the Apple environment shared a Twitter with a 3D Mark from a machine claiming to be a 13-inch MacBook Powered by 7th Gen Intel's 1068 GHz i7-2.3NG4.1 Ice Lake chip with XNUMX GHz turbo.
Benchmarks compare this new configuration to the current one from 2019, with the 5th generation 2.4GHz Core iXNUMX chip. The result is a 12 percent increase in CPU speed, and a 30 percent increase in GPU performance.
If this rumor is true, it will be the first XNUMXth generation Intel chip to be used by Apple in a laptop. Rumors also suggest that the company will release this new version of the 13-inch MacBook before the summer, perhaps at the keynote in March, or at the WWDC in June.
Time spy
i5-8279U 4C / 8T 2.4GHz base 4.1GHz boost + Iris Plus 655 with 128MB eDRAM 28W (2019 13 "MacBook Pro)
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i7-1068NG7 4C / 8T 2.3GHz base 4.1GHz boost 28W (2020 13 "MacBook Pro) pic.twitter.com/Ogr4sfGGNa- _rogame (@_rogame) February 15, 2020
It is also expected that together with this new generation of chips, Apple's new laptops feature an improved scissor keyboard, already introduced in the 16-inch MacBook, along with the option to expand the memory up to 32GB of RAM.