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Fake News. Apple MAC with AMD CPU.
« on: February 10, 2020, 02:02:43 PM »
Not true.
See here:
The thinking is that Apple would commission a semi-custom processor for use in Apple's Macs -- essentially an Apple-defined product that incorporates a substantial amount of AMD's intellectual property (e.g. processor cores, graphics processors, and so on). Here's why that's highly unlikely. Apple wants complete control
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/05/dont-expect-apple-inc-to-use-amd-processors-in-the.aspx
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On April 2, Bloomberg reported that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) intends to eventually transition its Mac computers away from Intel
Don't hold your breath.  ::)


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Re: Fake News. Apple MAC with AMD CPU.
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2020, 02:10:39 PM »
The rumour that Apple may use AMD processors is based on information from data-mining of macOS Catalina 10.15.4 in a Beta release that was available last wednesday. (Feb 5th). It was found that the new Beta had a number of AMD Processor Codenames as well as codenames for a few other unreleased AMD processor products, which were not present in previous releases. Thus the rumour related to the possible availability of AMD processors, which seems reasonable to me as a likely reason such AMD-related code-names are present in the codebase.

The link you provided which you seem to feel debunks the rumour is from April of 2018, And only counters a much weaker rumour from that time frame.

I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.