With industry-leading performance, powerful features, and incredible efficiency, the M1 is the first Apple chip designed specifically for the Mac

Apple has announced M1 , the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac.

M1 is optimized for Mac systems where small size and energy efficiency are of paramount importance. As a system-on-a-chip (SoC), M1 combines numerous powerful technologies into a single chip and features a unified memory architecture for significantly improved performance and efficiency.

M1 is the first personal computer chip built using state-of-the-art 5-nanometer process technology and is equipped with a whopping 16 billion transistors. It features the world’s fastest low-power silicon CPU core, the world’s best CPU performance per watt, the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, and groundbreaking machine learning performance with Apple’s Neural Engine. With its profound increase in performance and efficiency, the M1 delivers the biggest leap ever for the Mac.

First system on chip for Mac

Macs and PCs traditionally use multiple chips for CPU, I / O, security, and more. Now with M1, these technologies are combined into a single SoC, offering a new level of integration for greater performance and energy efficiency. M1 also features a unified memory architecture that combines high-bandwidth, low-latency memory into a single pool within a custom package. This allows all SoC technologies to access the same data without copying it between multiple memory pools, further improving performance and efficiency.

World’s best CPU performance per Watt

M1 is equipped with an 8-core CPU consisting of four high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores. Each of the high-performance cores provides industry-leading performance for single-threaded tasks, running as efficiently as possible. They are the world’s fastest low-powered silicon CPU cores, allowing photographers to edit high-resolution photos with lightning-fast speed and developers to create apps nearly 3x faster than before. And all four can be used together for a huge multithreaded performance boost.

The four highly efficient cores deliver outstanding performance at one-tenth the power . By themselves, these four cores deliver similar performance to the current generation of dual-core MacBook Airs at much less power. They are the most efficient way to perform light daily tasks like checking email or surfing the web and preserve battery life like never before. And all eight cores can work together to deliver incredible processing power for the most demanding tasks and deliver the world’s best CPU performance per watt.

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