For a few years now, with the release of the MacBook Air M1 in 2020, Apple began to dispense with Intel As for processors, manufacturing their own, something that is much more economical for the company, and that, at least until now, has given them good results.
However, Intel cannot leave this alone, and Apple was one of its largest sources of income, so, during this year, it has presented its new processors, which they want to compete against all the others, and show that they are still alive.
Intel presents competing processors from Apple
Intel has just presented its new generation of processors Panther Lakealso called Intel Core Ultra Series 3. With them, the company wants to once again fight face to face with Apple and Qualcomm in the field of laptops with artificial intelligence.
These chips use the new Intel 18A process, with technologies such as RibbonFET and PowerVia, designed to improve efficiency and performance. They are aimed at both light computers and more powerful laptops, and have an integrated NPU that is responsible for accelerating AI tasks without overloading the main processor.
On a technical level, they offer up to 16 cores that combine power and efficiency, an Xe3 GPU with up to 12 cores and support for ray tracingplus compatibility with up to 128GB DDR5 memory either 96GB LPDDR5. Intel assures that Panther Lake consumes around a 10% less energy than the previous generation, and improves graphics performance by up to 50%, something that will be especially noticeable in creative or gaming tasks.
Another important novelty is its modular architecture, which separates the computing, graphics and connectivity blocks to optimize each part independently. It also includes an improved multimedia engine with 10-bit AV1 support, ideal for high-quality video and more efficient encoding.
Although it is already in production, the first laptops with these chips will not arrive until 2026. Intel is confident that Panther Lake will allow it to regain ground against Apple Silicon and the new Qualcomm processors.
Could it lead Apple to return to using Intel processors?
Although they have managed to reduce energy consumption and increase power to possibly be the best, We doubt that Apple wants to work with Intel againbecause although the apple company's chips are not as efficient, they are prepared and adapted for their own equipment, which achieves better consumption management, and, therefore, greater autonomy, as well as performance.
It is true that the era of AI has only just begun, and who knows if, in a few years, they will not be able to keep up, something that already happened to them with Apple Intelligent, having to resort to integrated ChatGPT so that users would not protest about the Siri being so simple that they had, and, therefore, request the chip from other companies like Intel.
The interesting thing about all this is the competition, which makes everything move much faster, so, whatever Apple chooses, we are sure that in a few years we will have equipment that we are not even able to imagine now. And you, what do you think of all this? Do you notice the difference between Intel and Apple processors? The truth is that the M1 was a big leap, and that is why they will not go back, at least for now.
