AnandTech on Apple’s M1 chip

Andrei Frumusanu, AnandTech:

The new processor is called the Apple M1, the company’s first SoC designed with Macs in mind. With four large performance cores, four efficiency cores, and an 8-GPU core GPU, it features 16 billion transistors on a 5nm process node. Apple’s is starting a new SoC naming scheme for this new family of processors, but at least on paper it looks a lot like an A14X.

And:

Today, we’re going to be dissecting the new Apple M1 news, as well as doing a microarchitectural deep dive based on the already-released Apple A14 SoC.

There’s a lot to digest here, tons of detail, some of it picking apart the specifics that Apple shared yesterday, some of it extrapolating from what is known about the A14.

If you care about the hardware side of things, I think you’ll find this an interesting, dense read.