Yesterday the third Apple keynote took place, in which the new MacBooks were presented. One of the great novelties that they integrate is the new Apple M1 chip . But do you know what it is? Why is the change worth it? We tell you:
Apple M1 chip: what is it
Apple has decided to make its own processors, to be able to do without Intel. So much so, that it has updated the Macs with the new chips of the bitten apple, the M1 . This is the great novelty of the MacBook Air , Pro and Mini that have been presented.
It is a chip of our own design and it is the first Apple Silicon chip . It is the first SoC integrated in Mac, built in 5 nanometers and made up of 16,000 million transistors.
Everything is built into the same block of silicon, which means that it takes less space and hence makes new Macs thinner too.
But, one of the great features and benefits of these new M1-chip MacBook laptops is that they now have better performance and are more efficient .
Specifically, we have an 8-core CPU made up of 4 high-performance and 4 high-efficiency cores. With the world’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon. What does this mean? That we have up to 3.5 times higher CPU performance, achieving the best CPU / watt performance in the world.
And it also consumes less energy. To give you an idea, Macs have gone from lasting about 11-12 hours to 18 hours of autonomy . That is, you also win for this part. Not only in power and performance.
In terms of graphics, not too bad. It handles advanced tasks such as 4K video playback and 3D rendering . What can be interesting for programmers, designers and computer scientists.
For this part, it is also postulated as having the fastest integrated graphics ever seen in a personal computer.
With all this data and taking into account that macOS Big Sur is optimized for M1 , it only remains to start enjoying the new MacBooks and knowing their potential.
