They have. If the next 13" / 14" is coming next month or during WWDC, per the rumors, then this is the processor it will get, with added benefit of supporting up to 32GB RAM
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Except Q1 is over, and we're almost in the middle of Q2. As far as I know, nobody has seen the 1068G7 in a shipping product.
Apple's Intel options right now would be Comet Lake-U, which is basically out of the question with current SKUs (but otherwise enticing with its six-core option), because none of them offer Iris Plus, or Ice Lake-U.
We don't really have benchmark data for the 1068G7, and all other parts are, at most, 15W. Let's take the beefiest 15W part, the 1065G7, and pit it against the 8569U, the current high-end option on the 13-inchers:
In single-core, it does 6% worse, averaging 1091 vs. 1160. In multi-core, it does 22% worse, averaging 3539 vs. 4334. Oops.
There
would be benefits: way faster memory, the option for more memory (as you point out), and somewhat faster graphics. But other than the mythical 1065G7, which surely Apple wouldn't want to put in
all 13-inch MBPs, the CPUs would actually be
worse.
Alternatives:
- as happened with the Air, Intel gives Apple special SKUs. Maybe even special variants of Comet Lake instead.
- Apple just waits for Tiger Lake-U instead. Big leap in graphics, and lots of stuff like USB4 and PCIe 4 (some of that may not yet trickle down to -U, though).
- the AMD wild card. Renoir would be appealing for this generation.