<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false">Apple's master plan involves embedding ARM processors in Intel Macs for the last five years.The Apple T2 Security Chip, a 64-bit ARMv8 system-on-chip, acts as a special embedded controller alongside the main computer.The T2 chip features a variant of the Apple A10 processor manufactured by TSMC on a 16nm process.The architecture includes a nearly identical CPU macro as the A10 with four cores, two high-performance cores, and two smaller ones.