WHAT IS THE M1 CHIP ?
The Apple M1 is the first ARM-based System on a Chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. for its line of Macintosh computers. It appears in the MacBook Air (M1, 2020), Mac mini (M1, 2020), and the MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020). It is the first personal computer chip built using a 5 nm process. Apple states that it has the world’s fastest central processing unit (CPU) core “in low power silicon” and the world’s best CPU performance per watt.
The M1 has four high-performance and four low-power (dubbed “e-cores” or “high-efficiency”) cores, providing a configuration similar to ARM big.LITTLE. This combination allows power-use optimizations not possible with Apple–Intel architecture devices. Apple claims the low-power cores use one-tenth the power of the high-performance ones. The high-performance cores have 192 kB of instruction cache and 128 kB of data cache and share a 12 MB L2 cache; the low-power ones: 128 kB instruction cache, 64 kB data cache, and a shared 4 MB L2 cache.
The M1 uses 4266 MHz LPDDR4X SDRAM in a unified memory configuration shared by all the components of the processor. The SoC and RAM chips are mounted together in a system-in-a-package design. 8 GB and 16 GB configurations are available. The M1 integrates an Apple-designed eight-core (seven in some models) graphics processing unit (GPU) and dedicated neural network hardware in a 16-core Neural Engine. Other components include an image signal processor (ISP), NVMe storage and Thunderbolt 4 controllers and a Secure Enclave. Rosetta 2 dynamic binary translation technology enables M1-equipped products to run software built for Intel x86 CPUs.
Products that include the Apple M1
Macbook Air 2020 (M1 chip)
the macbook air comes with an 8-core CPU and 7-core GPU, plus a 16-core ‘Neural Engine’. There’s 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD storage, plus a 13-inch Retina display with True Tone. Touch ID is included, and there are two Thunderbolt ports.
Mac Mini 2020 (M1 chip)
the mac mini comes with Apple M1 chip
8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores 8-core GPU 16-core Neural Engine And 8GB of memory Configurable to 16GB and 256GB SSD
Configurable to: 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB
MacBook Pro 2020 (M1 chip)
The macbook pro comes with 13.3-inch Retina display Processor: Apple M1 processor (8-core CPU; 8-core GPU) withMemory of 8GB up to 16GB unified memory and also with Storage of 256GB up to 2TB SSD .
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