Apple has brought to the fore something that we also expected, the second generation of its chips: the M2 chip. This new chip will begin to incorporate the new Apple computers and products, among which could be the new MacBook Air that they would be about to present. This new chip is maintained in the architecture of 5 nanometers and ensures that yields 18% more than its predecessor the M1 chip.
The M2 chip, an evolution of the M1 chip
The new M2 chip It is the new investment in Apple Silicon that has been wanted to be introduced at WWDC22. This new chip is the second generation of chips created by Apple. He stays in the line of 5 nanometers, like the M1 chip.
The presentation has emphasized on the performance and processing advantages over its M1 chip. We cannot forget that in a year the novelties cannot be very great, especially considering the global situation of driver shortage in which we find ourselves.
However, the new M2 chip features a 40% faster Neural Engine speed of Apple achieving great processing capacity. They get to get over 15,8 trillion operations per second with its 16 Neural Engine cores.
Increases CPU speed by 18% with 8 cores, and up to 35% GPU speed with up to 10 cores. In addition, Apple has confirmed that memory can be mobilized with speeds of up to 100 GB/s of bandwidth, optimizing this bandwidth by 50%.
New video codec processing is also incorporated ProRes allowing playback of content on external 6K displays. It is clear that there is a lot of information that we will have to contrast and reflect the news with its predecessor, the M1 chip. What is clear is that Apple's goal with its Apple Silicon still stands.