Apple today revealed its new M2 chip at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). After the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra chipsets, with great promises of improved performance, Apple is now ready to move on to the more powerful M2 chip.
Like the original M1 chip, the new M2 chip uses custom Apple arm silicon, and is manufactured using 20 billion transistors in a 5 nanometer process — 25 percent more than the original M1. All of these transistors are supposed to boost performance, and Apple promises an 18 percent faster CPU and 35 percent faster GPU inside the M2 than the original M1 did.
According to Apple, this performance appears to be 1.9 times faster than the “latest 10-core laptop chip”. To get even better performance than the M1, Apple uses new performance and performance cores on the M2, a 100Gbps memory band and 24GB of onboard memory — 50 percent more bandwidth than the M1. Apple uses four high-performance cores, four high-performance cores on the M2, a 16MB cache shared on the performance cores, and a 4MB cache shared across the performance.
Apple’s M2 features a Neural Engine, a next-generation secure engine, and an updated media engine that supports 8K H.264 video and HEVC. In fact, systems running M2 chipsets can play multiple streams of 4K and 8K video simultaneously.
The MacBook Air was one of Apple’s most popular laptops, and the first to have the M2 chip. The MacBook Air’s wedge shape has been changed to a slimmer profile this time around, and the M2-equipped laptop also comes with MagSafe charging. The new MacBook Air has a large 13.6-inch screen, an excellent camera and up to 18 hours of battery life. More details regarding the new MacBook Air here.
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