Intel Countdown?

Since the introduction of the original iPad in January 2010, Apple has been putting its own processors into its mobile devices. The iPad 2 is continuing this trend with Apple's new , and it's a good bet the rumored iPhone 5 expected in June will also be rocking this chip. The new A5 processor is twice as fast as the single-core A4 chip and offers graphics processing that is 9 times faster than the A4, according to Apple.

So far Apple processors have only shown up in the company's mobile devices. The big question is whether Apple will ever start developing desktop processors for the Mac, instead of using Intel chips.

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