Apple launched Apple Silicon to much fanfare in October 2020, with the first generation chip named ‘M1’. Now, Apple is debuting its second-generation custom Mac chip architecture, unsurprisingly named M2. M2 chip arrives first in the brand new MacBook Air.
Apple says CPU performance is 18% faster. You can now get 50% more memory bandwidth than M1, with up to 24 GB total RAM. There are also now 10 total GPU cores, with up to 35% better graphics performance than M1.
M2 is built on the same five nanometer process as M1, as rumored.
Apple says that the M2 chip can compete with high-end laptop PC chips at a fraction of the power, delivering 90% of the performance of a 12-core Intel CPU at a quarter of the power.
The Media Engine cores inside the M2 have also been significantly upgraded.
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