Apple M1

"*That's right, the M1 chip is not just in the Mac, it's now in iPad Pro. And It's gonna blow you away. iPad Pro has always used turbo-charged visions of our A-series chips to deliver a powerful and responsive experience that's year ahead of anything else. M1 continues that momentum by taking it to an entirely new level. With a bug jump in performance to run powerful apps and drive a high-performance ecosystem.*"
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The **Apple M1 chip** is desktop-class ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) developed by Apple original used on its Macintosh product lines, including the MacBook and iMac. On April 20, 2021, the chip was made available for the 5th generation of iPad Pro. It was first introduced in an Apple Special Event on November 10, 2019. It is known for its small sizes while packinga higher power efficiency.

The M1 chip has a 3.5x faster CPU performance, up to 6x faster GPU performance, and up to 15x faster machine learning capabilities compared to the Intel chips used in prior-generation machines. An M1-based Mac lasts up to 2x longer than its predecessor.

## Formats

Until the release of M1, Mac relies on multiple chips to function its built-in CPU, I/O, security, and memory capabilities, the newly unveiled Apple M1 chip bundle all those features inside of a single processor. Apple engineered a high bandwidth low latency quality battery as the inner powerhouse of M1, allowing the SoC to assess the same data without copying multiple pools of memory.

It is the first processor based on the 5 nanometers processor technology, containing 16 billion transistors. The Apple M1 chip assemble an 8 core-CPU mainly powered by two performance cores, each performance core operates a single task or thread. It provide a 2x more efficient CPU performance than the latest personal computer chipset while costing just a quarter of the power of the battery power require on the current PC processor. Apple claimed it is the world's faster CPU core and is the industry-leading CPU in watt.

The chip integrates an 8-core GPU capable of running 25,000 threads operations at a time and delivers the world's industry-leading class integrate graphic quality. Compared to the chipset used on the latest PC model, its GPU capabilities offer 2x more efficient functionally while only burning a third of the power of the battery power needed from that PC chipset.

There's also a 16-core Neutral Engine capable of running 11 trillion operations per second. It also takes advantage of the secure enclave which manage the Touch ID and a storage controller with AES encryption hardware for SSD performance that's faster and more secure, thunderbolt and USB-4, the latest ISP as well as UMA support.

## References

1. ↑ M1 chip and Thunderbolt come to Apple's 11-inch iPad Pro. AppleInsider. Archived from the original on 2021-04-26. Accessed 2021-04-30.
2. ↑ Apple Event — April 20. Youtube. Archived from the original on 2021-04-20. Accessed 2021-04-30.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Apple Event — November 10. Youtube. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Accessed 2021-04-30.
4. ↑ Apple M1 Chip: Everything You Need to Know. MacRumors. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Accessed 2021-04-30.

## External links

* Apple M1 Chip at Apple
* M1 - Apple at WikiChip
* Apple M1 at Wikipedia
* Apple M1 at the Apple Wiki