What you need to know
- Apple has announced the new M2 chip.
- The speedy Apple silicon was announced during the WWDC22 opening keynote.
Apple has today announced the next generation of its Apple silicon, with the M2 chip's debut during today's WWDC22 event.
The new second-generation hardware comes built on a 5nm manufacturing process and features 20 billion transistors. Apple says we can expect up to 100GB/s of bandwidth which is 50% more than the current M1 chip, the chip that started the Apple silicon transition.
The chips themselves come with an 8-core CPU — four of which are performance with a larger cache than before. Apple expects 18% better performance vs. power usage results compared to the M1 chips while 10 GPU cores represent a doubling of the previous M1 part. That, in, turn, means 25% improved graphics performance at the same power level as the M1 and 25% improved performance when working at its maximum power output.
Video creators will enjoy the ability to handle multiple 4K and 8K streams at once, with a high bandwidth video decoder supporting 8K encoding and decoding.
The first machine to make use of the new M2 chip is the updated MacBook Air, a device that Apple says is its best-selling laptop currently. There's no doubt that it will also make its way to all of the newest best MacBooks on the market.
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