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Apple Is Amid A Rare And Historic Leak With Its M4 MacBook Pro, Even Worse Than When The Unreleased iPhone 4 Was Left In A Bar

wccftech | Oct. 8, 2024, 2:29 p.m. | Original

Apple is experiencing an ongoing leak of its MacBook Pro model, which should not have seen daylight until next month. The leak involved the company's unreleased M4 MacBook Pro model, which had been unboxed by multiple YouTubers in a matter of days. Photos and videos of the unannounced product have been surfacing across social media, and it could be the most historic and rare Apple leak that the company has seen so far, including the one where the unreleased iPhone 4 was left in a bar by mistake. The M

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AMD to Become Major Customer of TSMC Arizona Facility with High-Performance Designs

TechPowerUp News | Oct. 8, 2024, 11:23 a.m. | Original

After Apple, we just learned that AMD is the next company in line for US-based manufacturing in the TSMC Arizona facility. Industry analyst Tim Culpan reports that TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona will soon be producing AMD's high-performance computing (HPC) processors, with tape out and manufacturing expected to commence on TSMC's 5 nm node next year. This move comes after previously reported Apple's A16 SoC production, which is already in progress at the facility and could see shipments

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Apple marks MacBook and iPad models ‘vintage,’ adds iPods to ‘obsolete’ list

9to5mac | Oct. 8, 2024, 11:02 a.m. | Original

Today Apple has updated its lists of with new additions. The latest vintage products are select MacBook and iPad models, while key iPods and a beloved iPhone model are now considered ‘obsolete.’

Apple maintains a the company considers ‘vintage’ and ‘obsolete.’ Both designations are tied to how long a product has been unavailable for sale.

5 years after a product was last distributed for sale, it becomes ‘vintage
7 years after its last distribution, it’s considered ‘obsolete’

The latest additions to these

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AMD Could Be Shifting Some of Its High-Performance Chip Production To TSMC Arizona

wccftech | Oct. 8, 2024, 11 a.m. | Original

AMD is reportedly going to shift some of its high-performance chip production to TSMC's Arizona fab by next year. AMD reportedly sourcing its 5nm high-performance chip production from TSMC Arizona The chip giant AMD usually sources its chips from TSMC Taiwan and whether you look at the Radeon RX 7000 series based on the RDNA 3 architecture or the latest Zen 4 and Zen 5 series, all are manufactured using TSMC's process nodes. This time, it is expected that AMD will source its chips

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Apple M4 Macbook Pro leaks become a flood as 200 units reportedly up for sale via social media

Tom's Hardware | Oct. 8, 2024, 8:30 a.m. | Original

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Another MacBook Pro M4 unboxing video has been released today. This time popular Russian TechTuber Romancev768 shows off the illicit goods. Simultaneously, there are also reports of hundreds of MacBook Pro M4 units being up for sale via private social media groups. After enjoying years of enviable leak-resistant product launches, the barn doors seem to have well and truly been blasted off at Apple.

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M4 MacBook Pro With 10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, Paired With 16GB Unified RAM & 512GB Storage Is Available For $7,500 On An Online Russian Marketplace Listing

wccftech | Oct. 8, 2024, 7:31 a.m. | Original

The month of November is a few weeks away, meaning that Apple needs to have an excellent cover story of how its M4 MacBook Pro was leaked before the official announcement that will reportedly kick off next month. After the portable Mac was reviewed by a Russian YouTuber, who also showcased its performance by running a Geekbench 6 benchmark, posting respectable single-core and multi-core scores, the machine with the exact same configuration is now listed on Avito, an online Russian marketplace. As for the price, it can

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Apple’s Next-Gen M4 Ultra Chip With Mind-Blowing Performance Gains Coming To Mac Studio And Mac Pro in Late 2025

wccftech | Oct. 7, 2024, 11:42 p.m. | Original

Apple is ready to introduce the M4 variants of the MacBook Pro and the Mac mini on November 1, as detailed by a prominent analyst, but it brings us to question when the company would introduce the highest-end variants of the chip. We expect the company to introduce the new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips in the new products, but it remains to be seen when the company announces the M4 Ultra chip for the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro. Well, we now have an answer

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Another M4 MacBook Pro Unit Shows Up In The Hands Of A Russian YouTuber, With Details Confirming That It Is A ‘November 2024’ Model

wccftech | Oct. 7, 2024, 6:32 p.m. | Original

Apple was previously reported to unveil a host of Macs powered by the M4 chipset on November 1, but it appears that some Russian content creators have beaten the company to the punch. Earlier, we got our first look at the unboxing of the M4 MacBook Pro, which included a brief review and a Geekbench 6 benchmarking run that saw the machine post slightly higher results compared to the M4 iPad Pro. Now, a second Russian YouTuber has his hands on a model that was supposed to be announced next month

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AMD to reportedly become TSMC's next major customer in Arizona — HPC AI chips could start US production in 2025

Tom's Hardware | Oct. 7, 2024, 2:45 p.m. | Original

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AMD is set to produce high-performance chips at TSMC’s new Arizona fab, making it the second high-profile client for the fab after Apple. Independent journalist Tim Culpan reports that sources close to the matter confirmed the agreement today, though TSMC declined to comment.

TSMC Fab 21, located near Phoenix, Arizona, has begun trial production on its 5nm node, a process node family that includes the N4/N4P/

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Russian outlet nabs Apple M4 MacBook Pro, posts unprecedented pre-release benchmarks — M4 is reportedly 25% faster than M3

Tom's Hardware | Oct. 7, 2024, 12:46 p.m. | Original

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A YouTube channel has published an unboxing and brief hands-on featuring a purported MacBook Pro M4. If genuine, this ‘world premiere’ video from Wylsacom is an incredible scoop, as Apple is renowned for keeping its products tightly under wraps until they are officially launched.

According to an email bulletin circulated by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman this weekend, MacBook Pro laptops with M4 chips aren’t expected to be announced until “around the end of October.” Availability is scheduled

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