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Apple’s new M1 chip, Macs, lack of performance data, and more tech news today
July 15, 2025
1. Apple’s M1 chip, and new M1 Macs
Apple’s event yesterday introduced its Arm-based M1 chip as its new Apple silicon chipset, and announced three new Macs that will sport the no-longer-Intel hardware:the 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and a surprise, the Mac Mini. The new Macs look just about identical, with some keyboard changes, and the main promise is more battery life right now.
To be clear, these are the low-end Macs getting a boost:
That’s the top line.
Let’s dig in a little.
The M1 chip:
Finally, we saw some limited detail into the first Apple silicon system-on-a-chip (SoC) for Macs. Built on a 5nm process, with 16B transistors (up 35% from the A14), 8-core CPU (four performance cores, four high-efficiency cores), up to 8-core GPU, and a 16-core neural engine.
Here’s one of its graphs with no X or Y labels, and no true reference (which “laptop chip”?):
Battery, cooling keyboard:
Omissions?
Questions:
What Qualcomm is saying:
Despite their legal entanglements over modems over the past years, Qualcomm represents an ally of sorts for Apple, and the San Diego company sees Apple’s Arm-based desktop chips as a catalyst for real change, which it would also benefit from.
But Qualcomm did point out issues it has seen itself with its Arm-based chips, and those are withlegacy apps:
Still, Apple might be the spark that sees app development take off — the Qualcomm executive also noted that they’d spoken to app developers who questioned the long-term viability of Arm in PCs. But these developers are now moving to “take Arm seriously” following Apple’s move.
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