The launch of the M4 has officially moved the Mac out of the Intel era and completed the Apple silicon transition.

In 2021, Intel reassigned Bai to oversee its global supply chain and he left the company the following year. Bai, 62, had been CEO of another Chinese chip manufacturer, Rong Semiconductor, since 2022.

One way around this problem is to replace silicon with graphene-like 2D materials that maintain their semiconducting ...