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The first MacBook Air M1 with Apple Silicon was impressive, and it looks like Apple is ready to turn the heat even higher at Intel.
According to a Bloomberg report co-authored by trusted Apple journalist Mark Gurman, Apple is not only looking to beat past Intel-based MacBooks (and some of today’s best laptops), but simply to put Intel completely to shame.
Apple will award these new ARM-based processors inside its upcoming MacBook Pro (both entry-level and high-end), upcoming upgraded high-end iMacs, and a new Mac Pro. Of course, we expected Apple to reveal new successors. of the M1 chip for your more powerful Macs, but the details here are interesting.
How much faster can Apple go? Let’s talk about cores. The new MacBook Airs and MacBook Pro M1s kicked butt in the M1 benchmarks, but the demanding world of video editors has been wondering what Apple will release for the power-hungry audience.
The original M1 chip has 8 cores (4 high-performance, 4 high-efficiency) and the Bloomberg report suggests that Apple is working on clearly more muscular chips. The next Apple Silicon for MacBook Pro and iMac will be a 20-core system on a chip, with up to 16 high-performance cores. That is in addition to the four standard efficiency cores (which are there for when you’re doing less processor-intensive work).
For those scoring at home, the new chip would be more than double the number of cores in Apple’s Intel-based MacBooks (which top 8).
The new MacBook Pro and Air M1 have integrated 7 or 8-core GPUs, and Apple also plans to up the ante for its next “high-end laptops and mid-range desktops,” as the 16-core and 32-core report notes. The core graphics components are being tested.
Except there are also versions of that chip with 8 and 12 high-performance cores enabled. These may need to be used if you experience problems enabling all 16 high-performance cores during production.
Apple Silicon will be even faster
And then there’s the even more powerful Apple Silicon being made for desktop Macs. Apple, according to this report, is working on a chip design system with a whopping 32 cores of high performance. This would fit into “a new mid-size Mac Pro,” which Apple would position for 2022. The current MacPro maxes out at 28 cores in its high-end customization.
For high-end desktops, slated for later in 2021 and a new mid-size Mac Pro to launch in 2022, Apple is testing a chip design with up to 32 high-performance cores.
At that stage, Apple’s biggest competitor will be AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), which has also been outpacing Intel in the chip manufacturing business, with 16-core desktop chips and 64-core gaming components.
