This week, Greg Welch, director of Intel’s Ultrabook, told that he also heard the rumors that Apple would continue to develop its A-series chips and put them into use in Mac computers by replacing Intel’s mainstream x86 processors. Intel concerns about the rumors and expresses that they would not worry about it too much and would continue to innovate its way into Apple’s product portfolio.
“We hear the same rumors and it would be remiss of us to be dismissive," he said. "We endeavor to innovate so they'll continue to look to us as a supplier.”
Not long ago, there were rumors said that Apple was putting A-series chips into Macs production line, and the result was ‘better than expected’ when testing OSX. The content, which came at the end of a Q&A session on Intel’s fledgeling Ultrabook slim notebook initiative, appears to lend support to claims from a few months ago thatApplebuilt a test Thunderbolt MacBook Air around the same A5 chip found in the iPad 2 and found that the system acted “better than expected.”
While, for Apple, it can benefit a lot if it adopts self-designed processors in its models. First of all, it will not need to be limited by intellectual property terms; it will not be controlled by the third-party suppliers, which will lower its production costs and improve its negotiating power when bargaining about the prices.
Additionally, the company would not need to compete with competitors for its supply of processors and would have more flexibility to fine-tune battery and overall performance, delivering even more of the features to the Mac line that have seen itsiOSdevices top the ranks of consumer satisfaction surveys for years.
Last year, Apple introduced its first ARM-based A-series chip—A4, which had been put into its iPad and iPhone 4. And then, iniPad2, it implanted the dual-core graphics and processor cores, A5. According to some reports, an A6 chip is expected to be used in iPhone 5, which will launch soon, as well as iPad 3 in early 2012.
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