16B Transistors Driving Apple's New Mac Chip; Battery Life Doubles

Apple announced the M1 chip, its most powerful ever, designed specifically for the Mac. The SoC, with 16 billion transistors, is the first personal computer chip built using a 5-nanometer process, Apple said Tuesday. The SoC delivers 3.5 times faster central processing unit performance, six times faster graphics performance and 15 times faster machine learning, said the company, with twice the battery life.