Apple is said to be preparing for its next generation of ARM chips. And it will be the 2022 MacBook Air that will benefit first.
Apple MacBook Pro M1 // Source: Arnaud Gelineau for Frandroid
Not only will Apple be working on an improved version of its M1 processor, M1X that can equip the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro. According to the site phone arenaThe Apple brand is already working on a… M2 chip.
If the name doesn’t surprise too much, knowledgeable analyst TF International Ming-Ching Kuo quotes: phone arena, lets us learn more about this future segment. According to him, the chip will again be produced by TSMC, and this time it will go to a nodes at 4 nm, where the Apple M1 took advantage of 5 nm.
The MacBook Air 2022 is taking shape
Concretely, what does this change? In principle, smaller node size allows chip access to be more robust and better manage its energy.
Source: Apple
Another important piece of information: the M2 chip could debut on the new MacBook Air, released in mid-2022. It’s not the first time a currency analyst has done this new generation MacBook AiNS. He has said in the past that he will sign the arrival of the LED headlight.
Comparison with Apple M1X
Regardless of the size of their nodes, the Apple M2 and M1X will have the same number of cores in their CPU part, i.e. 10. On the graphics side, some rumors point to the presence of 32 cores for the Apple M1X, which the Apple M2 does not It should have it, which should contain a lower number.
Source: Frandroid
As a reminder, the Apple M1 was designed by Apple to replace the Intel chips on a number of its Macs. Based on the ARM architecture, comprising 16 billion transistors, the A14 Bionic chip, used in other cases in the iPhone 12, displays only 11.8 billion. Its performance in one core, Both against AMD chips from intel chips, often impressed when the slide was fired.
