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Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kintania with John Ford and Dear

Deerbosa. Today, Apple's getting chippy, ramps up the pressure on competitors, what it means

for the rest of the PC ecosystem. Plus, the future of Bitcoin, what is next for crypto as the first Bitcoin futures ETF debuts

today?

And then the SEC says this is not a game.

A new report outlines how payment for order flow entices brokers to promote risky retail

trading behavior, John.

Yeah, let's take a bite out of Apple just to start announcing new MacBook

Pro designs with their own M1 Pro and Max chips at yesterday's Unleashed event. The raw performance and

ambition in these chip designs have the industry reeling a bit this morning. 32 core GPU in the

max, 57 billion transistors. This move puts pressure on the rest of the PC ecosystem,

including Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, perhaps creating some opportunity for them, too.

While the new M1 Pro and Max chips are currently in higher-end machines, we can expect to see the

concepts and architecture trickle into more mainstream computer sales in 2022 and 2023, if history is any guide.

And also the next generation of AirPods, also making headlines starting at $179.

That's kind of in between the higher end with noise cancellation.

And now there's a lower end more pricing tiers starting at

129 bucks d but these m1 pro and max chips i mean we can geek out a little bit on chips but what this

is doing lisa sue was just talking a couple of weeks ago at code about heterogeneous computing and the ability to turn different cores on and off, graphics, CPU, depending on what the user is doing.

That's what Apple is trying to take the lead in here.

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