The first manufacture line of current MacBook laptops and MacBook Pro based on processors and chipsets platform Intel Santa Rosa, that is, on the same components, and computers that HP, Dell and other vendors. In order to maintain rapid growth in sales, three times to overtake the market, Apple is considering the possibility of choosing other components and technologies that will help create an additional competitive edge.
The coming generation of computers MacBook will not be translated into Intel Centrino mobile platform 2 (Montevina). Source hints that the new PC processors continue use Intel, but will be used by other logic. Who will become the new supplier of chipsets, is not reported. Maybe it will be the company Nvidia, but not precluded the use of components of AMD (Platform Puma) and Via. Perhaps that partly contributed to the creation of a new component will make a base acquired in spring 2008, the company PA Semi. According to the source, the company Apple, wishing to produce increasingly thin and light notebooks like the MacBook Air, Intel chipsets may no longer hold in terms of consumption of electrical energy and because of the low productivity of embedded graphics controller.