Apple's self-developed desktop CPU and graphics card are built using TSMC’s 5nm process.

At the WWDC developer conference in June of this year, Apple officially announced that its Macs will completely switch from Intel x86 to ARM’s own Apple Silicon chip in the next two years or so.

According to the latest news from @手机晶片达人, Apple’s iMac desktop next year will not only switch to Apple’s own Silicon processor but will also be able to carry Apple’s own graphics chips. Both of which are created using TSMC’s 5nm process.

According to a survey by TrendForce Semiconductor Research, the first Mac SoC will be manufactured using TSMC’s 5nm technology, with an estimated cost of less than $ 100. Which is more price-competitive than Intel, Mac products using Apple Silicon processors are expected to ship in the second half of next year.

In addition to the iMac, the MacBook series will also move entirely to the Apple Silicon processor.

In July of this year, Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingchi predicted that future new MacBook models from Apple include: 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon (mass production in the fourth quarter of this year), MacBook Air with Apple Silicon (fourth quarter of this year ) Or mass production in the first quarter of next year), a new design for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon (mass production at the end of the second or third quarter of next year).

“The move to Apple chips represents the biggest step forward on the Mac.” Earlier, Apple officials said that for over a decade, Apple’s world-class chip development team has created and improved its own SoC.

The result is a custom scalable architecture designed for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch that leads the industry in terms of performance and performance per watt, delivering the best performance for each.

Based on this architecture, Apple is developing a series of SoCs for the Mac. This will provide industry-leading Mac performance per watt and a faster GPU, enabling application developers to create more powerful professional applications and high-quality games.

Apple’s first self-developed PC processor Apple Silicon has confirmed that it has a 12-core configuration

According to the latest news from whistleblower a_rumors0000, a foreign source, Apple Silicon has confirmed that it has a 12-core configuration. But, unfortunately, he did not provide more details.

This is in line with some previous reports, and even the rumored 12-core Apple Silicon features 8 performance cores (large core) and 4 performance cores (small core). Which will be released in the fourth quarter with the 13-inch MacBook Pro.

Although the specific performance of the 12-core Apple Silicon is still in doubt, taking the Mac Mini development machine running A12Z Bionic as an example, even if the chipset runs applications through the intermediate translation layer Rosetta 2 (performance loss is inevitable), it still beats the Surface, Pro X. Not only that, but the GPU of A12Z Bionic also beats Ryzen 5 4500U and Core i7-1065G7 iGPU in the OpenCL test.

This could mean that the 12-core Apple Silicon not only provides a powerful guarantee of computing and graphics performance. But the 13-inch MacBook Pro’s motherboard will take up less space, which will extend battery life over previous Intel-based products.