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Apple launches proprietary processor for Macs

November 10, 2020

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Called M1, it will be used in the MacBook air, MacBook mini, and MacBook pro.

It is built using Arm cores, fabbed on TSMC’s 5nm process and has 16 billion transistors.

Arm claims it will offer longer battery life than Macs have had in the past – for instance a MacBook air using M1 will play 18 hours of video on one charge compared to 12 hours with the previously used Intel processor.

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