Apple Chips Ahoy
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🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Another month, another Apple event. This time around, we saw three new Macs, all with a shiny new chip inside them. Apple's M1 processor is a great big leap forward for the company. It marks a shift from Intel-made chips to designs that Apple produces entirely in-house, a change that gives the company much greater control over the products it creates.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Tom Simonite and WIRED senior associate editor Julian Chokkattu come on to talk about Apple's new chips, operating system, and MacBooks, and what it all means for the future of the company.
Show Notes:
Read Tom’s story about Apple’s new chips here. Check out everything Apple announced this week here. Stay tuned for our reviews of the new M1-powered Macs, which should publish in the coming weeks.
Recommendations:
Tom recommends getting a mesh Wi-Fi router (he likes the TP Link Deco). Julian recommends The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. Mike recommends the new Werner Herzog documentary Fireball on Apple TV+. (Read WIRED’s look at the film here.)
Tom Simonite can be found on Twitter @tsimonite. Julian Chokkattu is @JulianChokkattu. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Michael Collory, a senior editor at Wired. |
| 0:11.4 | Lauren Good is out this week, and we miss her terribly, but we're going to try to fill the gaping |
| 0:17.1 | Laurenless void with a couple of guests. Joining me remotely this week is Wired senior writer Tom Simonite. |
| 0:25.4 | Hello, Mike. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, Tom. |
| 0:26.9 | And also on the show is Wired Senior Associate Editor Julian Chokatu. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello, Julian. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello. |
| 0:33.4 | Welcome back to the show, both of you. |
| 0:35.5 | Today, we are talking about Apple. |
| 0:37.3 | Yes, Apple held its third hardware event of the fall on Tuesday, Welcome back to the show, both of you. Today, we are talking about Apple. |
| 0:42.1 | Yes, Apple held its third hardware event of the fall on Tuesday of this week. |
| 0:47.1 | The event was titled One More Thing, but there were actually several more things. |
| 0:54.8 | Apple showed off three new Macs and gave a release date for the next version of Mac OS, but it's the smallest piece of tech that was the biggest news. Apple has officially unveiled its new custom-made silicon chips that will power |
| 1:00.0 | the new MacBooks and Mac desktops. It's called the M-1 chip. For the past 15 years, Apple has relied |
| 1:07.8 | on Intel to provide chips for its computers, but now it's moving in its own direction. |
| 1:12.8 | Apple has developed to the M1 entirely in-house. |
| 1:15.6 | It gives the company an unprecedented level of control over its development process and supply chain. |
| 1:21.2 | But how will that affect the company's future? |
| 1:23.9 | And what about Intel? |
| 1:25.6 | Tom, you have written about Apple's new M1 Chips for Wired.com. |
| 1:29.3 | Are these the real deal revolution that Apple says they are? |
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