The 14-inch will be equipped with a 12-core M processor, and the 16-inch will be upgraded to a 16-core M processor.
The 12-core, 16-core new processor may not be called M2, because it was previously reported that M2 will choose to be launched on the iMac, because it is a desktop machine, the scale of CPU and GPU units is more considerable. Considering the excellent performance of the current 8-core M1, especially in the context of macOS, the upcoming 12-core and 16-core are certainly expected!
First, the core number is different
1.12 cores 24 threads: The number of CPU cores is 12
2.16 Core 32 threads: The number of CPU cores is 16
Second, different number of threads
1, twelve core twenty-four threads: the CPU thread is twenty-four threads, and can simulate up to twenty-four cores.
2, sixteen core 32 threads: the CPU thread is 32 threads, and can simulate up to 32 cores.