Apple is reportedly working on a new feature for its upcoming iMac Pro, including the ‘Hey Siri’ command support enabled by tweaking the iPhone 7’s A10 Fusion chip.
BridgeOS code revealed that the Cupertino giant is planning to use iPhone 7’s CPU as the co-processor to power a series of tasks similar to Apple iPhones.
After inspecting the firmware, developer Steve Troughton-Smith says there’s a possibility that the A10 chip will power the boot and security processes of macOS for the iMac Pro, while Guilherme Rambo discovered that the company is likely to enable ‘Hey Siri’ command using the same chip.
“Looks like the iMac Pro's ARM coprocessor is arm64 seems to handle the macOS boot & security process, as expected; iMac Pro lets Apple experiment with tighter control without the rest of the userbase freaking out,” Steve Troughton-Smith tweeted.
This means that waking Siri will just require a voice command similar to Cortana seen on Windows 10 devices. ‘Hey Siri’ already supports voice commands on the iPhones.
This isn’t the first time Apple has incorporated an ARM coprocessor on its computers, it was originally believed that company would take a similar approach for its MacBook Pro as well.
Apple is expected to showcase the new iMac Pro sometime by the end of the year, according to 9to5mac, Apple is still testing the A chips that could make way to their Mac from the iPhones.
