Apple ditches Intel chips
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The tech giant tells developers future Macs will use Apple-designed chips as found in the iPad and iPhone. Plus, as shops reopen after lockdowns, how can tech make physical shopping safer and more pleasant? And CEO of Slack, Stewart Butterfield, talks to us about communication between businesses, and how President Trump’s ban on work visas will hurt Silicon Valley. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC North America tech reporter James Clayton. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Apple CEO Tim Cook gives the keynote address at the 2020 Worldwide Developers’ Conference WWDC, Credit: EPA/ BROOKS KRAFT/ APPLE).
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| 0:50.9 | from the technology business. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and this week Apple unveils its next big move, swapping Intel chips for its own designs, but will Mac users |
| 1:00.9 | notice? After months in lockdown, shops are opening up again around the world. Can tech help make |
| 1:07.4 | shoppers safe? And the boss of workplace chat firm Slack tells us what he's learned |
| 1:13.2 | about working from home. Joining me this week is our brand new BBC Silicon Valley correspondent, |
| 1:19.5 | James Clayton. Joining me from San Francisco, is that right? Not quite. I think that's fake news. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm actually in London because of COVID. I haven't actually |
| 1:29.1 | been able to get to San Francisco yet, but I'm hoping to get there soon. We'll get you on a plane as soon |
| 1:35.0 | as President Trump allows it. And I am still in my loft on a hot, hot day. You can probably hear |
| 1:43.1 | the sound of normalos outside. |
| 1:45.1 | Here's a flavor of what's coming up. |
| 1:46.6 | We've seen a surge in demand in contactless payments, |
| 1:50.2 | but also retailers looking to things like scan and go technology |
| 1:54.8 | or checkout free stores. |
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