Apple M1 CPU laptops

Apple M1

— series of processors from Apple, introduced in November 2020, along with the release of the next generations of MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

In the initial configurations, M1 chips are equipped with 8 cores — 4 performant and 4 economical; the latter, according to the creators, consume 10 times less energy than the former. This, combined with the 5nm process technology, has made it possible to achieve very high energy efficiency and at the same time performance. It is also worth noting that the processors of this series are made according to the system-on-chip scheme: single module combines CPU, graphics adapter, RAM (8 or 16 GB in the first models), an NVMe solid-state drive and some other components (in particularly Thunderbolt 4 controllers).