February 24 news, according to foreign media MacRumors reported that Apple is developing two chips with an area equivalent to two and four M1 Max, the former has 20 CPU cores and 64 GPU cores, and the latter has 40 CPU cores and 128 GPU cores.
Last year, Apple released two chips, M1 Pro and M1 Max, and their outstanding performance made fruit fans ecstatic. The release of these two new products means that Apple is one step closer to getting rid of dependence on an Intel chip. In fact, there are fewer and fewer Macs with Intel processors now, but that doesn't mean Apple has completely rid of Intel.
One of Apple's main products, the Mac Pro, still comes standard with Intel, and hasn't been updated for two years. According to MacRumors, Apple is going to update the Mac Pro this year, but it is still not the standard self-developed chip in the entire series. The larger Mac Pro will be equipped with Intel chips, and the smaller Mac Pro will be changed to Apple's own chips.
Apple did this mainly to consider that some software may not be compatible with arm architecture of the self-developed chip, and the self-developed chip under heavy load may not be stronger than the Intel Core processor. In the previous article, Xiao Lei has repeatedly emphasized the difference between ARM and X86 architecture, the former code is streamlined, low power consumption, suitable for professional office, but really used for productivity, incompatible software is too much.
X86 architecture code is too complex, so the power consumption is relatively high, but the compatibility is much stronger, Xiao Lei was still using the Windows 10 system a few days ago to play the game "Blood War on the Beach" 20 years ago. Even if Apple's ecology is relatively closed, it must also take into account the compatibility of the software.
Still, Apple's gradual abandonment of Intel has become almost a given fact. Earlier, when Apple chose to develop its own chip, Intel's new CEO Henry Kissinger said that Apple is a fact and will use its strength to save Apple. The recently released 12th generation Core is indeed amazing enough, and the energy consumption ratio is even comparable to the M1 Max of the ARM architecture, but Apple chose to develop its own chip, and performance is only one of the factors, and the more important reason is the cost.
Compared with the purchase of Intel chips, Apple's self-developed chips will be handed over to TSMC, and the cost will definitely drop a lot. As for Intel, there is no need to worry about Apple's departure, no matter how Apple develops, Windows is what the public needs, and Core processors are not worried about sales.