From what Tim Cook said just before presenting the new iMac M1, we can say that the transition to Apple Silicon is going very well. Already more Macs are sold with an M1 chip than with Intel chips, indicating that quite a few people are already reaping the benefits of the architecture leap with business benefits.
The timing and names of future Apple Silicon chips remain a mystery
We all look forward to the next step. If the cheapest and “bad” chip M1 chip allows video editors to work with three 4K video streams at 60fps simultaneously, what can we do with a high-end version of this M1? It looked like we were going to be able to see it on this same WWDC21, but ultimately we have to wait a bit longer.
In fact, there are clues that suggest that Apple I intended to present a MacBook Pro with ‘M1X’ chip in the past WWDC– The original YouTube event video tags verbatim the words “M1X” and “M1X MacBook Pro”. Either it was an SEO tactic or Apple had to hastily cancel this presentation very shortly before the launch. opening speech.
So now the order of the day is to wait a little longer. Maybe we’ll see this MacBook Pro in the middle of summer (unusual but not impossible, as I said before), or maybe Apple preferred to wait until fall and present this MacBook Pro with more ‘computers. The next big step in the transition.
Whichever names you choose, Apple will now have a much easier time updating their Macs and the versions will be more consistent.
Or maybe that was the plan from the start, who knows. In the past, I have talked about the possibilities of an M1X chip and even reliable sources have explicitly mentioned this name. But maybe there has been a change of plans and Apple wants to leave the M1 as a solo first stop. Maybe the first year of this transition was for the M1, and the second year (from October or November) an M2 makes its way with a more complete version called M2X.
I don’t rely on any hearsay to say it, nor do I have any assembly line sources. I am neither Jon Prosser nor Ming-Chi Kuo. On second thought, I say Apple loves annual iterations. Maybe in Cupertino they might prefer that the first year is for the M1 chip and the second for the M2 and M2X range. And if 2022 is the year of the new Mac Pro, we would have an even bigger lineup: M3, M3X for the more powerful Macs and something like an “M3Z” for the really professional and prohibitively priced Macs.
Whatever happens, this should be something much easier for Apple to do from here on out. With their own chips, for example, moving from a Mac mini or MacBook Air with an M1 chip to the same models with an M2 chip should pose virtually no challenge beyond creating the new chip. It won’t happen much less what happened with the Intel chips, which required Apple to test and evaluate them to verify that the Macs didn’t overheat too much and that the rest of the components worked well with them. . In other words: I firmly believe that Macs will update much more evenly from now on.
From October 2020 to October 2021, M1. From October 2021 to October 2022, M2 and M2X. From October 2022, M3, M3X and ‘M3Z’. Logic. But if you are waiting for the arrival of an ‘M1X’ don’t despair with this article: it is even likely that I am wrong and we will see a launch as soon as possible. We will see what the months of July and August have in store for us.
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