Apple's new M2 processor was unveiled during the company's annual developers' conference, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The M2 chip is the first of Apple's second-generation Silicon processors to be released.
The Apple M2 chipset, as its name suggests, is a follow-up to the M1 chipset that was released a few months ago and promises significant performance improvements.
Apple's own ARM silicon is used in the new M2 chip, which is constructed on a 5nm process with 20 billion transistors, which the firm claims is 25% more than the original M1 CPU.
In comparison to the M1, the business promises an 18 percent quicker CPU and a 35 percent faster GPU. Apple also claims that the performance is 1.9x quicker than the "latest 10-core PC laptop processor," but doesn't specify which competitor it is referring to.
On the M2, Apple has also used new performance and efficiency cores. On the M2, there are four high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, each with a shared 16MB cache for performance and a shared 4MB cache for efficiency.
The GPU now has up to ten cores, which is two more than the original M1. A bigger cache and increased memory bandwidth also help to improve graphics performance. Apple claims that the new iPhone will perform up to 35% better than the previous model.
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It also has a memory bandwidth of 100Gbps and a unified memory of 24GB, which is 50% higher bandwidth than the predecessor. A next-generation secure enclave and neural engine are also included in the chip. It also includes a new media engine that supports H.264 and HEVC video in 8K resolution. This implies it will be able to concurrently play several streams of 4K and 8K video.
The new Apple MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are the company's first laptops to include the new Apple M2 processor. We expect Apple to release a few additional varieties of this new processor in the coming months, similar to its predecessor.
