Apple's last major desktop computing hardware shift came in 2005 when it announced it would start producing computers running on Intel-based hardware, but now the company is reportedly considering manufacturing its own desktop chips for the Macs of the future. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple believes its mobile chips will soon be powerful enough to power the Mac platform, particularly as mobile devices and "traditional" PCs continue to converge. This echoes another Bloomberg Businessweek report from early October which claimed a similar shift was coming; it's not clear if today's report users the same anonymous sources who reported this earlier in the year.
Either way, there's a lot of reasons to believe such a claim. While a...
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