Apple this time released two chips, M1 Pro and M1 max, both produced by TSMC in 5nm process, M1 Pro transistor number reached 33.7 billion, twice that of M1, and M1 max transistor number is more than 50 billion, thus performance has been greatly improved, up to 70% higher than M1 processor.
The M1 processor released by Apple last year has been comparable to Intel's i9 processor in terms of performance, and the goal of the M1 processor is to replace Intel's processor in terms of performance enough to meet the performance requirements of the MacBook, coupled with the optimization of Apple's own MacOS system, the experience is enough to surpass Intel's processor.
While further improving performance, the M1 Pro processor further reduces power consumption, which is very important for Apple's Mac notebook series, which can effectively improve the battery life, reduce the battery capacity, make the notebook thinner and lighter, and form its own unique competitiveness in the notebook industry.
The M1 Pro and M1 max are not only a major blow for Intel, but also for Android processors.
Apple's processors and Android chip companies belong to the ARM camp, but there are still fundamental differences in their processor designs. Apple's processor research and development is only authorized by ARM and independently developed the core architecture, so Apple's A-series processor has been leading the Android processor for two years, and the M series processor has created A new height of performance of the ARM architecture.
ARM has monopolized the mobile market, its biggest advantage is low power consumption, but before ARM's biggest drawback is performance, the processor performance of the ARM camp has been lagging behind Intel, until Apple launched the M series to catch up with Intel, M1 processor performance close to Intel i9 processor. The rare thing is that the power consumption is still better than Intel's processor.
Among the Android chip companies, Samsung has independently developed the Monkat core, Qualcomm independently developed the kryo core, but now they have given up independent research and development and use ARM's public version of the core, so far all Android chip companies have adopted ARM's public version of the core. The public core developed by ARM needs to consider the cost problem and the demand for chips in various industries, so it can not fully improve the performance, which leads to the performance of ARM's public core compared with Apple's self-developed core more and more backward.
Today's Android processor benchmark is Snapdragon 888, the performance of Snapdragon 888 and Apple's A13 processor two years ago is equivalent, and Snapdragon 888 has used ARM's first large core X1, and now Apple's M1 Pro and M1 max performance is several times stronger than the A15 processor, Snapdragon 888 is naturally beyond.
The ARM camp has always wanted to invade the PC processor market monopolized by Intel and AMD, and now with the launch of the powerful M1 Pro and M1 MAX finally realized this desire, but this is the glory of Apple, but not the glory of Android chips, Android chips are too backward, it may take several years to keep up with Apple's footsteps.
The m1 chip is equivalent to many times the performance of the Snapdragon 888, which may have to wait until the Snapdragon 9 series to be able to surpass