Apple gets ready to release computers with ARM chips

Wave of rumors that Apple will abandon Intel on account of their own ARM processors flooded the Internet. French MacBidouille site claims that Apple is preparing models of iMac, Mac mini and 13 - inch notebook with 64-bit ARM chips forward TechNews. 

Prototypes have revised keyboard and a larger touch panel Magic Trackpad. There are no known reasons why Apple has not yet announced ARM models - according to French media , they developed long ago. Back in 2011 we saw the first rumors that Apple plans to leave Intel, if her partner did not make its processors more economical . Then it was claimed that Apple has already established MacBook based ARM platform A5. Such a notebook and was not presented to the market.

ARM cores are used in a number of products, particularly PDAs and smartphones. Some computing examples are the Microsoft Surface, Apple's iPad and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. Others include Apple's iPhone smartphone and iPod portable media player, Canon PowerShot A470 digital camera, Nintendo DS handheld game console and TomTom turn-by-turn navigation system. In 2005, ARM Holdings took part in the development of Manchester University's computer, SpiNNaker, which used ARM cores to simulate the human brain. 

ARM chips are also used in Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard, BeagleBone, PandaBoard and other single-board computers, because they are very small, inexpensive and consume very little power.

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