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With industry-leading performance powerful features and incredible efficiency M1 is Apples first chip designed specifically for the MacApple 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 in which small size and power efficiency are critically important. As a system on a chip SoC M1 combines numerous powerful technologies into a single chip and features a unified memory architecture for dramatically improved performance and efficiency. M1 is the first personal computer chip built using cutting-edge 5-nanometer process technology and is packed with an astounding 16 billion transistors the most Apple has ever put into a chip. It features the worlds fastest CPU core in low-power silicon the worlds best CPU performance per watt the worlds fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer and breakthrough machine learning performance with the Apple Neural Engine. As a result M1 delivers up to 3.5x faster CPU performance up to 6x faster GPU performance and up to 15x faster machine learning all while enabling battery life up to 2x longer than previous-generation Macs. With its profound increase in performance and efficiency M1 delivers the biggest leap ever for the Mac.1There has never been a chip like M1 our breakthrough SoC for the Mac. It builds on more than a decade of designing industry-leading chips for iPhone iPad and Apple Watch and ushers in a whole new era for the Mac said Johny Srouji Apples senior vice president of Hardware Technologies. When it comes to low-power silicon M1 has the worlds fastest CPU core the worlds fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer and the amazing machine learning performance of the Apple Neural Engine. With its unique combination of remarkable performance powerful features and incredible efficiency M1 is by far the best chip weve ever created.First System on a Chip for the MacMacs and PCs have traditionally used multiple chips for the CPU IO security and more. Now with M1 these technologies are combined into a single SoC delivering a whole new level of integration for greater performance and power efficiency. M1 also features a unified memory architecture that brings together high-bandwidth low-latency memory into a single pool within a custom package. This allows all of the technologies in the SoC to access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory further improving performance and efficiency.The Worlds Best CPU Performance per WattM1 features 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 while running as efficiently as possible. They are the worlds fastest CPU cores in low-power silicon allowing photographers to edit high-resolution photos with lightning speed and developers to build apps nearly 3x faster than before. And all four can be used together for a huge boost in multithreaded performance. The four high-efficiency cores deliver outstanding performance at a tenth of the power. By themselves these four cores deliver similar performance as the current-generation dual-core MacBook Air at much lower power. They are the most efficient way to run lightweight everyday tasks like checking email or browsing the web and preserve battery life like never before. And all eight cores can work together to provide incredible compute power for the most demanding tasks and deliver the worlds best CPU performance per watt.The Worlds Fastest Integrated GraphicsM1 includes Apples most advanced GPU. It benefits from years of analysis of Mac applications including everyday apps and challenging pro workloads. With industry-leading performance and incredible efficiency the GPU in M1 is in a class by itself. Featuring up to eight powerful cores capable of running nearly 25000 threads simultaneously the GPU can handle extremely demanding tasks with ease from smooth playback of multiple 4K video streams to rendering complex 3D scenes. With 2.6 teraflops of throughput M1 has the worlds fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer.Blazing-Fast On-Device Machine LearningThe M1 chip brings the Apple Neural Engine to the Mac greatly accelerating machine learning ML tasks. Featuring Apples most advanced 16-core architecture capable of 11 trillion operations per second the Neural Engine in M1 enables up to 15x faster machine learning performance. In fact the entire M1 chip is designed to excel at machine learning with ML accelerators in the CPU and a powerful GPU so tasks like video analysis voice recognition and image processing will have a level of performance never seen before on the Mac.
