Comparison of Apple M1, A14 Shows Differences in SoC Design

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3 min readDec 29, 2020

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by Joel Hruska

Ever since Apple launched the M1, there have been questions about how the new SoC would differ from the A14. While the two SoCs are based on a common CPU microarchitecture, the M1 incorporates additional on-die functionality that the A14 does not, along with more CPU cores in-total and a larger overall die size.

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