July 20 MacBook Pro ARM update below, post originally published on July 16. Glancing at another week of Cupertino news and headlines, this week’s Apple Loop includes new details from the iPhone 12, the killer feature of the iPhone, the dying but not yet dead MacBook Air, the iPad Pro …
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TSMC is nearing completion of a 3-nanometer process that could be used in Apple’s A series or Apple’s silicon chips to be produced in 2022, with a report doubling rumors that the chip foundry is preparing to begin the production of risk processors using the process in 2021. As a …
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