Apple’s M2 chip is on schedule to make its debut inside a 16-inch MacBook Pro this July, and in other high-end Macs in the fall. Apple said it would take around two years to move to the new ARMbased silicon, and is on track to do it faster. Rumor has it that the M2 will have 12 CPU cores, eight highpower and four low-power. The graphics core count doubles to 16, giving gaming a considerable bump. It is being built by TSMC using its N5P process, said to offer around 10 percent better numbers than the regular 5nm process. The M1 impressed us all, and gave the x86 world something to chew over; the M2 manages the same trick higher up the tree. The question is: Will it be good enough to tempt system builders to use M2s in Windows rigs?
–CL