Intel appears to have made its speediest 10th-generation Ice Lake mobile processors exclusive to Apple’s MacBook lineup.
The chipmaker seems to have replaced that chip with the Core i7-1068NG7 SKU, the 10nm, 28-watt processor found in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, as well as a new Core i5-1038NG67 chip.
Per NotebookCheck and Geekbench results, the “N” designation in the moniker is reserved for Apple-exclusive chips. In other words, Intel now appears to be marking certain 28W Ice Lake processors as chips unique to Apple notebooks.