Two high-ranking Apple employees, Vice President of Platform Architecture Tim Millet and Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Bob Borchers, have talked about the development of the M1 chip – and its successor – with the editors of Tom’s Hardware.
Apple has a long history of making its own chips. It introduced the A-series chip with the launch of the iPad in April 2010. That iPad featured the 32-bit A4 chip that appeared in the iPhone 4 in June that same year. Then in 2013 Apple took a leap to the 64-bit architecture for its smartphones, leaving the 32-bit processors of the competition in the dust for a few more years. Even now the competition is playing catch up.
The theory that Apple would transition to its own processors for Macs had been rumored for years before Apple eventually announced it in June 2020. The announcement was no surprise, but Apple’s certainty that the new M1 processor would be miles ahead of the competition did raise some eyebrows. Those eyebrows were successfully lowered when the new M1-powered Macs launched and were seen to be just as good as…
