Introducing the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, all with the Apple M1 chip
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Yesterday, Apple released its first-ever line up of Macs with its own Apple Silicon, the M1 chip, in a much-awaited release. The event, which you can view above, started at Apple Park, where CEO Tim Cook outlined the progress Apple has made this fall in an unprecedented series of releases at 3 events, from OS updates to Apple Watch, iPad, and iPhone. Now, it's finally time for the Mac, Apple's most popular line of products. From Apple's top-secret chip lab, John Ternus (VP, Hardware Engineering) introduced Apple's new, high efficiency and performance chip, the M1. It uses the same Apple Silicon as Apple's other products, like Watch, iPad, and iPhone. M1 is an SoC (System on Chip). This means that all of the various chips that are normally distributed around a laptop, such as the CPU, GPU, memory, I/O, and security chips are all in one. Johny Srouji (SVP, Hardware Technologies) explains that it also features a UMA (unified memory architecture), which means that are the systems on the chip can access the same memory, making it much more efficient. Apple's chip uses the industry-leading 5nm technology to pack 16 billion transistors onto a single chip.
