Apple made a major shift during this year's WWDC, where the company announced its transition to Apple Silicon. In other words, future Mac computers will be powered by Apple-designed ARM chips, ultimately moving away from Intel.
Building on tradition, Apple announced the first generation of MacBook computers equipped with its ARM chips. The company says its new efforts can improve performance while also increasing fuel efficiency.
To this end, Apple has introduced a family of ARM chips, starting with the M1 chip which is based on a 5nm manufacturing process and contains 16 billion transistors. Its 8-core processor includes four performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.
What's interesting is that M1 will also allow iPad and iPhone apps to run on MacBooks, correcting the scarcity of apps for macOS.
Apple claims to have one of the best performance per watt in the market today. Additionally, M1 is almost as powerful as the dual-core MacBook currently sold by Apple. M1 also contains a 16-core neural engine capable of performing up to 11 trillion operations per second.
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