Symbolic names of AMD's Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) have been discovered in the Mac OS Catalina code, indicating a possible major shift in these devices that have been relied for years on Intel processors, and the names discovered are Picasso, Renoir and Van Gogh.

The Accelerated Processing Units (APU) is a type of processor that AMD specializes in manufacturing and designed to include a CPU and a GPU in a single template.

Apple had already made the switch from NVIDIA to AMD in connection with graphics processors in 2016. Currently, MacBook laptops are shipped with Intel (CBU) processors, and with AMD graphics processors on 16-inch higher-class computers.

But if Apple decides to switch completely to AMD, that would be a big hit for Intel.

The advantage that Apple will get from using an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) is a significant increase in energy efficiency and perhaps better customization of the operating system code.

One of the names that appeared in the code for the Mac OS OS Catalina (Reuters) was the codename AMD processor "Reisen".

For example, if Apple switches to the use of the Renoir Accelerated Processing Unit, which is the next chip named "Risen 3 4300U", users may notice a slight improvement in performance. According to leaked performance tests, the Razin 3 4300U processor is 3% faster than the Intel 8th Generation Core i7-8565U processor. Although this increase is not impressive, the real benefit may come from improved graphics performance.

According to the Toms Guide website on technical matters, Intel's integrated graphics processors in the CPU have always lacked this convincing performance, and if AMD could develop an even better CPU processor, it would represent a major jump in Apple computers. Thin and light portable.

However, it is worth noting that AMD processors fall back when compared to Intel tenth-generation Core i5-10210U processors, which is 6% faster.

The second benefit, according to the Toms Guide site, is that the best AMD “ABU” processors have a maximum of eight cores and 16 processing paths, and when compared to the best Intel tenth generation processors which is the Core i7-10710U that includes six cores and 12 As a path of processing, AMD easily excels.

The news comes a month after the start of circulating rumors that Apple is launching personal gaming computers at a cost of $ 5,000. And if the company is already in the process of manufacturing high-end gaming computers, it is not excluded that it will switch to AMD CPUs and GPUs.