Fruity cargo cult Apple has purged Intel chips from its Mac Pro PC and has the whole lot running on its homemade silicon.
Apple began replacing Intel CPUs in its Mac lineup in 2020 with custom Arm-based chips designed in-house. Three years later, the company’s entire lineup of Macs is powered by homegrown M-series chips, including its MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs and Mac Minis.
With its higher spec and “cheese grater” design, the flagship Mac Pro could not use Apple silicon and had to stick to more traditional Intel hardware.
At its WWDC 2023 event client device giant said it had come up with the M2 Ultra, which combines two M2 Max chips on a single die to deliver double-digit performance boosts over the M1 Ultra.
Apple hardware engineering senior VP John Ternus said that the move completes the transition to Apple silicon.
Intel CEO Pat [kicking] Gelsinger said that after losing business from Apple he is focused on enabling PC manufacturers that compete with Apple. At the same time, he has stated a desire to win new business from Apple by convincing the Mac maker to contract Intel to manufacture its custom chips.
On top of the new Mac Pro, Apple also revealed an updated Mac Studio that can use the new M2 Ultra plus an all-new 15-inch MacBook Air running on M2, the second-generation base chip debuted last year.
