Apple doesn’t want to use Intel’s Arrandale processors with integrated graphics?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 6, 2009 at 1:30pm
Apple has allegedly refused to adopt Intel’s Arrandale and the Calpella platform in its default form, reports the Bright Side of News. In order for Apple to implement Calpella design with their next refresh of Mac mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro lines, Intel will have to provide Apple with the 32nm version without the integrated graphics part, the article adds.
BSN adds that “we cannot confirm the information about the replacement CPU, we only know that Apple rejected Arrandale.” Arrandale is the code name for an Intel processor, initially sold as as mobile Intel Core i3, i5 and i7. It uses a dual-core die based on the 32 nm Westmere version of the Nehalem microarchitecture and has integrated graphics.
The Calpella platform will be based on the Nehalem processor architecture. It’s supposed to be a quad-core mobile chip, also with integrated graphics.
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