Apple has announced its first Arm-based laptops, the MacBook Air, Mac mini and Macbook Pro, and, with that, it also announced its family of Arm-based Apple Silicon chips.
During Apple’s “One More Thing” virtual event that held on November 10, Apple announced the first Apple Silicon processor for the Mac, called the M1.
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Apple said;
We’ve been making Apple Silicon for more than a decade. It’s at the heart of iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch – and now we want to bring it to the Mac, so the Mac can take a huge leap forward with the incredible performance, custom technologies and industry-leading power efficiency of Apple Silicon.
M1 has an eight-core CPU, with four high-performance cores. Apple described it as “the world’s fastest CPU core”. The other four high-efficiency cores use one-tenth of the power, helping M1 deliver the best CPU performance per watt.
The M1 also features integrated graphics with an eight-core GPU. In fact, Apple said the M1 has “the world’s fastest integrated graphics”.
The M1 chip contains a six-core neural engine that can process 11 trillion operations per second, as well as Apple’s Secure Enclave. It is built on the same five-nanometer process as Apple’s A14 chip for iOS devices, and the M1 supports Thunderbolt and USB 4.
New Macs – MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini will run on this processor.
