Intel Has High Expectations for Its Future Mobile Processors

If you read HardMac regularly you should know that Intel will soon entirely refresh (in depth) its architecture dedicated to mobile computing, and we suspect that Apple will adopt it early 2010 in order to benefit from the performance gain offered by the Nehalem. This will be a major step for Intel as the founder will include on the same die a CPU engraved at 32 nm and a 45 nm engraved integrated graphics and integrated memory controller:

Intel already announced to its customers that it has high expectations concerning graphical and video performances of this embedded graphics, ranking it higher than the current X4500. However, according to some reports, it would be a refreshed version of the older GMA950 clocked at a much higher frequency. WE can only hope that such solution will indeed be efficient and able to compete with the currently popular and powerful GeForce 9400M found in MacBook and iMac models. Apple will probably not use it if the performance level is really too low when compared to the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, however, NVIDIA will not be able to offer a Nehalem-compatible graphics solutions immediately as the company is legally battling with Intel on this specific topic.
If Apple adopts the new Intel solution we would not be surprised if it decides to add a discrete GPU in all MacBook Pro models, including the 13" model to compensate the difference performance wise, while defining a clear gap with the MacBook models. In addition, a discrete GPU will bring a huge performance benefit with Open CL and Snow Leopard.