It has been rumoured for years — Apple works toward ditching Intel CPUs from their desktop and laptop computers. At its developer conference in June of this year, the company officially announced its shift from Intel to “Apple Silicon” — Apple’s brand name for in-house developed ARM-based chips. Apple Silicon Macs — exciting! The first in-house designed SoC, the A4 (an ARM Cortex-A based System on a Chip) was used in the iPhone 4. Since then all iOS devices have been running on Apple’s own “Silicon”. The Apple A14 Bionic powers the 2020 iPad Air and iPhone 12. After “practicing” SoC design for ten years, Apple today presented… …the Apple M1 Today Apple announced the first Apple Silicon Macs running on in-house designed chip named Apple M1. The M1 is an integrated SoC containing CPU cores, GPU cores, RAM, security, I/O, and Apple’s “Neural Engine”4 inside one casing. Image source: Apple It contains 16 billion transistors manufactured in a 5Nm process. 8 CPU cores — 4 high-performance ones and 4 high-efficiency cores — work in concert with a 16-core “Neural Engine” that speeds up image processing and machine learning applications. Apple macOS Big Sur Apple macOS Big Sur. Image Credit: Apple Apple’s strength has always been the integration of hard- and software. It’s no surprise its next-generation operating system “Big Sur” in combination with the new M1 chip will run all of Apple’s own Apps — including Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro X natively on Apple Silicon. What apps...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 11 November, 2020