News JVTech MacBook: Ray-Tracing on Mac?! That’s what Apple is planning!
Ray-Tracing is a technology that has many gamers drooling. And for good reason, the contribution of ray-tracing is considered a real revolution, both for players, who benefit from much more detailed lighting effects, and developers, who see their work facilitated by these new technologies. But obviously, Apple has not said its last word.
Apple missed the mark of Ray-Tracing?
The new MacBooks were released during this summer of 2022 with the famous M2 chip, much more powerful than the previous one. Apple has done everything to demonstrate that its brand new processor will be overpowered, including in an area where it was not expected: gaming.
It must be said that Apple computers are not known to be good gaming machines. And for good reason, the developers focus above all on Windows PC ports, where the park is much larger. Apple still has the image of a brand offering MacBooks designed for work and for specific tasks such as video editing or photo editing.
On the smartphone side, the iPhone 14 is equipped with an ARM A16 Bionic chip, engraved by the expert hands of TSMC. While Mediatek with its Dimensity 9000 and Qualcomm with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 manage to offer chips that can support ray-tracing, Apple seems to be waiting a little bit.
And for once, Apple has never really been the kind of brand to take technological risks. For example, while many smartphone brands offer folding models, Apple does not take the plunge, but rumors from the corridors say that it would be in the boxes of the Cupertino company.
It’s through the website The Information that we learn that the first prototypes of the A16 Bionic would have been designed to have compatibility with Ray-Tracing. According to Apple, the technology would be very good and surprising, but that the energy costs would cause the smartphone to heat up too much, which could greatly influence the autonomy of the device.
Apple’s plans would have changed overnight seeing all these flaws, which explains the little technological gap between the A15 and A16 chip. But how to explain that other brands are now able to develop this same technology for their devices, but not the giant Apple?
This is explained according to The Information by the brain drain of renowned engineers from the firm at the apple. Many long-serving employees are slowly starting to say goodbye to Apple, which explains the rather small power gains between each new generation compared to before.
Future chips that send (very) heavy
Apple therefore takes its time to provide technologies capable of competing with the competition. The brand still plays a lot on its image that it forged with the charismatic Steve Jobs, but which today is struggling to find real technological arguments.
To tell you, The Information reports that Apple would do a lot of internal communication work to make employees understand that they are important to the company and improve their engagement. Apple has even provided bonuses of up to $180,000 to reward the best of them.
While waiting for the next generation of products from Apple, we see here and there rumors about the production of chips engraved in 3 nm, still at TSMCwhich they should deliver enough power to operate the hardware acceleration necessary for Ray-Tracing, all while being less consuming than current chips.
