Apple may be laying the groundwork for specialized multicore processors on mobile handsets. Take the just-released Macbook Pros for example. nVidia's Optimus h

Apple may be laying the groundwork for specialized multicore processors on mobile handsets. Take the just-released Macbook Pros for example. nVidia's Optimus has controls at the application-level whereas Apple's technology is at the library/framework-level. There is no user interaction to switch between different graphics chipsets; depending on need for performance/battery life, the OS does "the right thing". Ars has an article on it http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/inside-apples-automatic-gpu-switching.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/inside-apples-auto...