That changes this year, as Microsoft is dropping all support for Windows 7, on computers powered by processors that lack SSE2. The move comes amidst concerns of security.

The big question here is: if Apple, Samsung and possibly Microsoft succeed in building their own mobile and desktop CPUs and GPUs, how will this new trend affect the market and the price of devices?

This is a great feature, and indeed lighting quick when in need to preview files on a pinch, may those be image files, video, animated GIFs, or even text document like Word files or HTML files.

Apple’s new facility is already scouting to fill positions in several categories, including performance validation in non-iOS workloads, memory controllers, coherency protocols and memory subsystem.