Apple announced its new chip for its new MacBook line up . On November 10,2020 Apple announced the new M1 chip for upcoming mac products.
M1 chip is similar to processor used in mobile Phones. Qualcomm also introduced the similar type of chip named as 8cx for laptop on 2018.
M1 chip features:
8 Core CPU , 8 Core GPU, 16Core Neural Engine.
M1 has 16 Billion Transistors which is built on 5 nm fabrication node. This makes the chip as more power efficient.
Apple Claims the 8 Core CPU is 3.5x faster than intel 1.2GHz quadcore i7 processor and 8 Core GPU can handle 25K threads at the same time. 16 core Neural Engine can run 11 trillion operations per second.
Apple also introduced three Mac products built using this M1 chip MacBook Air , MacBook Pro 13 , Mac Mini.
Memory for this computer built internally inside the M1 chip, so when you purchasing the laptop you should be careful of choosing the memory configuration because you didn’t have a option to increase the memory once you have bought these products.
Apple said all of his mac products will be shifted from intel based chips to apple based SOC within next two years.
Apple may introduce new Soc chip for mac book pro 16 in feature this will be more powerful than M1 Chip to handle heavy task.
Note: This transition help us to use our iPhone and iPad apps in Mac computer.