Skylake also supports USB-C and Thunderbolt 3, both of which are expected on the new laptop.Īpple could wait for Kaby Lake to ship in the volume it needs, but everything it wants in the chipset is already available in Skylake-and Apple can get the quantities it needs right now. Battery life could be upwards of 30% better, too. Skylake will give the MacBook Pro CPU upwards of a 20% performance improvement, and around a 40% improvement for the integrated graphics processor. Kaby Lake won’t ship in the quantities Apple needs until next year, and doesn’t offer a significant enough improvement over Skylake to warrant waiting several more months before giving us new laptops. The next MacBook Pro refresh will include Skylake chipsets and Kaby Lake won’t show up in Apple’s pro laptop line until some time in 2017, if at all. They’re working well in the uber-thin MacBook, but considering they’re already a year old and Kaby Lake chipsets are making their way to manufacturers, it seems logical on the surface for Apple to jump from Haswell to the latest and greatest when it refreshes the MacBook Pro-but that isn’t how Apple rolls. Skylake chipsets haven’t found their way into the MacBook Pro yet even though they’ve been shipping for about a year and have been used in the iMac for almost that long. We won’t see them show up in the painfully out of date Mac Pro because Intel’s Xeon chips are more appropriate there. So far, Skylake chipsets are used in the iMac and also the MacBook. Some dual-core Macs, however, are using Broadwell chips which are Haswell chips made with a 14nm process instead of 22nm. Cannonlake isn’t shipping until 2017, which means it won’t show up in the MacBook Pro until 2018.Īpple first started using the Haswell chipsets in 2013 and for many Macs hasn’t moved on. Where Kaby Lake is a minor refinement of Sky Lake, Cannonlake marks the next significant chipset change because it’ll use a 10nm process. Skylake is an architectural change from Haswell because of its smaller process, and Kaby Lake is an iterative improvement over Skylake with reduced power consumption, better high resolution video, and built-in support for USB 3.1. Haswell used a 22nm process, while Skylake and Kaby Lake use a 14nm process, meaning the transistors packed on the chip are smaller. Haswell was introduced in 2013, Skylake followed in 2015, and Kaby Lake just started shipping to device makers. Haswell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Cannonlake are all code names for Intel chipsets used in desktop and laptop computers. Only a handful matter to Mac users, and for many the performance differences between a 20 MacBook Pro aren’t that significant. Intel loves its code names, and considering how many processors the company makes, there are plenty to remember. Don’t hold your breath for Kaby Lake MacBook Pro models Instead, Apple will most likely retire the aging Haswell chips it currently uses and finally move on to Skylake, and the really significant processor change won’t come until 2018 with Cannonlake. With Intel’s Kaby Lake processors shipping and the MacBook Pro woefully overdue for a refresh, Apple could skip over Skylake and roll out new laptops with the latest chips-except that isn’t going to happen.
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