This won't take too long: if you've used a MacBook Air before, you know the drill. The Air boasts faster LPDDR4 RAM than its predecessor, and its SSD is also between 5-10% faster than older models, which allows systems with lower memory to use swap (system storage that steps up to act like RAM) with less of a performance hit. They're also clocked higher, thanks to a larger thermal envelope - Apple doesn't disclose clock speeds, but benchmark apps I used estimate the M1 can burst to 3.2Ghz in single-core and 3Ghz in multi-core environments - while retaining the same unified architecture that lowers latency compared to discrete components inside most laptops.
We know that it's a variant of Apple's A14 Bionic, though with two additional high-performance "Firestorm" cores along with the four existing efficiency "Icestorm" cores found in devices like the iPad Air (2020) and iPhone 12 series.
Apple silicon is much clearer now that the M1 exists.
It took Intel until 2018 to achieve that vaunted 10nm die shrink, and there's irony in the fact that the company's best mobile chips in years, called Ice Lake, launched to much fanfare in late 2019, and on the MacBook Air in March 2020, only months before Apple wiped the slate clean with its own Apple Silicon announcement.īut the story of Intel vs. Macbook Air M1 (Image credit: Daniel Bader / Android Central)
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