Apple announced three new Macs last night based on its own M1 chip: the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro, and the Mac Mini. The company’s indigenous ARM-based chip marks the start of its transition from Intel CPUs on its own computers. The new chip packs a lot of interesting stuff, so let’s get straight into it. Specifications The M1 processor has eight cores — four high-performance and four efficiency — with a claimed 3.5x performance boost. It also features a 12MB L2 cache which makes data processing faster. The chip has whopping 16 billion transistors, made possible by the 5nm fabrication…
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