Apple will reportedly assemble the high-end M5 chips using 2.5D packaging. This is a chip design approach that places a processor’s compute modules atop a common base layer, or interposer. The interposer is itself a semiconductor that allows data to move between the chip’s other components.

Apple's powerful SoC — "system on a chip" — processors have been the source of its greatness for years, bringing incredible performance and long-lasting battery life to iPhones, iPads, and Macs because they use far less power processing everything we do on a laptop.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple will move away from its current processor designs that keep the CPU and GPU cores on the same chip — and see a performance gain.

Apple Inc. has asked to participate in an upcoming antitrust trial that will focus on Google LLC’s practices in the search market. Reuters reported the request today, citing a court document filed on Monday.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has asked if it can testify in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, Reuters reported Tuesday, saying it cannot rely on Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) to defend revenue-sharing agreements that earn the iPhone maker billions each year.