The parts are used to help power the ports, and Intel’s is still employed on Apple’s current M1 Macs.<\/p>\n
Twitter user SkyJuice posted a close-up picture<\/strong><\/a> of the new components on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n “Gone are Intel’s JHL8040R USB4 retimers, replaced by a pair of custom U09PY3 retimers,” they stated.<\/p>\n It was not clear whether the new components on the M2 MacBook Air were made by Apple or sourced from another third-party supplier.<\/p>\n The image below shows the new controllers.<\/p>\n Apple switched from Intel to using its own chips with the launch of the M1 13-inch MacBook Pro in November 2020.<\/p>\n While it has used its own chips for iPhones and iPads from the beginning, Apple’s Mac line-up relied on Intel processors for 15 years.<\/p>\n However, reports in recent years speculated that Apple grew frustrated with Intel’s chips limiting the new features, performance improvements, and design overhauls it could offer on newer devices.<\/p>\n At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it would start using its own silicon and move away from Intel and, in November 2020, launched the M1 chip on that year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini.<\/p>\n The M1 and its Pro, Max, and Ultra derivatives have been a massive success, posting incredible performance and efficiency gains over their Intel-powered predecessors.<\/p>\n Their improved heat management has also allowed Apple to remove the fan in some of its more recent Macs, making for more compact designs.<\/p>\n The switch to its in-house chip designs also enables Apple to better coordinate its hardware and software teams and hash out features without relying on external parties.<\/p>\n Apple has dropped the last component it sourced from Intel in its latest computer \u2014 the M2-powered MacBook Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":454206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,131,76740,80146],"class_list":["post-454172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-intel","tag-m2-chip","tag-m2-macbook-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454196,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454172\/revisions\/454196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/New-USB-and-Thunderbolt-controllers-800x431.jpeg\")
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