On March 11, Taiwan media DigiTimes reported that Apple's M2 chip will be based on TSMC's 4nm process, and will exceed the 5nm architecture in performance and efficiency. M1 can only have a maximum of 8 GPU cores, M2 will have a maximum of 10 GPU cores, and the number of CPU cores should remain at 8, 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.
The M2 chip could be released at WWDC mid-year, and it could come on the redesigned MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the new Mac mini, and the 24-inch iMac.
There is a lack of GPU-eating games on macOS, and games on iPadOS are not satisfied with these GPUs. The addition of two GPU cores to M2 does not have much impact on many users. In professional work such as video editing, rendering, and audio track editing, there is a lot of excellent software on macOS, but the lack of games is really a hard problem.
Xiao Lei is more looking forward to the improvement of energy efficiency, just as A15 is to A14, its energy efficiency has been greatly improved, making the iPhone 13's battery life much better, and it is expected that the battery life of the M2 device will also be improved.
On devices equipped with M2, the most concerned is the MacBook Air, whether it uses bangs design to become the focus of people's attention. Xiao Lei believes that whether it adopts the design of liu hai screen depends mainly on the contrast of the screen.
On the MacBook Pro on the mini-LED screen, when Safari is displayed in full screen, the entire column of bangs is completely black. Due to the high contrast of the mini-LED screen, there is no visual impact, just like the new MacBook Pro just narrowed the left and right bezels.
In order to achieve a similar effect, the MacBook Air either uses an OLED screen or a high-contrast LED screen. In contrast, the possibility of the former is slightly higher, but the life of oled screens is a hard wound after all. On the future iPad, Apple intends to use a double-layer stacked OLED screen to achieve double brightness and four times the lifespan, but this screen is not yet fully mature. Overall, Ray is more inclined to think that the new MacBook Air will not adopt a bang screen.