AppleInsider are reporting that they have heard rumours that Apple will be one of the first companies to do a major rollout of Intel’s new Core 2 processor series. There’s no details of what Mac models will be using the Core 2 chips, but there is speculation that a new revision of the MacBook Pro will surface, sporting the new Core 2 Duo configuration.

Now according to the article, Apple plan to use the Core 2 configuration known by its codename Merom. Merom is actually a 64-bit chip, unlike the 32-bit Core Duo chips used in the current MacBook and MacBook Pro models. Presumably this will still run 32-bit Intel software written for Intel Macs natively, but will there be any special 64-bit Intel applications (other than Mac OS X itself) to take advantage of the 64-bit architecture?