How Apple’s M2 chip builds on the M1 and sets up an even stronger road map

The M1 is a great chip. Essentially an ‘X’ variant of the A14 chip, it takes the iPhone and iPad processor and doubles the high-performance CPU cores, GPU cores, and memory bandwidth. The M1 chip is so good it’s equally amazing for tablets and thin-and-light laptops as it is for desktops, easily outperforming any competing chip with similar power draw and offering similar performance to processors that use at least twice as much energy.

Now a year and a half later, and after delivering three more powerful variants of the M1 (M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra), it’s time for the next generation. Announced at WWDC and appearing first in the new MacBook Air and 13in MacBook Pro, the M2 is essentially the System on Chip we predicted it would be: what the M1 is to the A14, the M2