, Apple will stop selling the and the series at the end of the year, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect.
Right now, the oldest phones still sold directly through Apple are the third-generation iPhone SE, the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Plus. As these phones feature a Lightning port, they are in violation of the European Union policy, which goes into effect starting January 2025.
Apple could have elected to make a new version of these devices
Apple is reportedly preparing to take another significant step in its silicon independence journey, according to . The shift is expected to first appear in refreshed Apple TV and HomePod mini hardware as soon as the upcoming year.
The company plans to replace Broadcom’s combined Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips with its own custom-designed solution starting next year, according to the well-sourced Mark Gurman.
The chip, internally dubbed ‘Proxima,’ has been in development for several years and represents Apple’s latest move to reduce
A new 16-core processor from Hygon—a fabless chip maker in China that uses AMD's first-gen Zen IP—has popped up on Geekbench . It offers 60% better performance than a similar eight-core Hygon processor we covered in the past. The performance bump isn't substantial when you consider the chip has twice the number of cores, but since the manufacturer is stuck on a now seven-year-old architecture—Zen 1
There’s currently very little reason to buy a Mac Pro over a Mac Studio configured with the M2 Ultra chip. That’s because Apple reportedly canceled plans for an M2 Extreme chip for the top-of-the-line Mac .
A new report suggests that history may be about to repeat itself, and that a planned Extreme chip for a future Mac Pro model may also now be in doubt. In the worst case, that could be no true new Mac Pro for years to come …
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