Shortly after announcing the development of their own processors and pretty much abandoning Intel, AMD is next, as their GPUs are phased out. And that means that Apple wants total autonomy of their CPU and GPU products.

By way of a twitter post, a thing or two have become clear. Apple is preparing to drop AMD as a supplier of discrete GPUs in the near future. That means they are stepping into an ARM architecture that is self-developed tied to their own GPUs. The new GPU series is tagged as the "Metal GPU Family," that derives from their Metal graphics API. This news originates from a WWDC 2020 presentation slide posted by Longhorn on Twitter. The slide implies that along with the processor, Apple is causing a separation with its graphics hardware. What product will be involved is a bit of a question marker. 

The first Mac with an arm CPU will be released at the end of this year and will feature an Apple-designed 12-core processor. Little is known about the GPU, but since user Longhorn is well informed, there is a good chance that it will already have an Apple GPU on board. Thanks, SOTN for the news submit.

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