ARM just took the unprecedented step of providing a roadmap for its future CPU designs. In doing so, the company crows about how its new Cortex-A76 design delivers performance similar to Intel’s U-series CPUs for thin-and-light notebooks while using a fraction of the power.
It’s a neat sales pitch for always-on, always-connected PCs, just as the Windows world starts to dabble in ARM-based laptops and convertible tablets. Some analysts are looking at ARM’s roadmap and using it to fuel speculation that Apple will make its own processors for Macs.