Apple Silicon

Mac Architectures:

Architecture	Years In Use
Motorola 68000	1983-1996
IBM PowerPC	1994-2006
Intel x86	2006-2022
Apple ARM	2020-

M Series

M1

Image	Name	Manufacturing Process	CPU	GPU	Memory	First Released	Used In
	M1	TSMC 5nm (N5)	Up to 3.2GHz 8-Core 4 performance cores (Firestorm) 4 efficiency cores (Icestorm) 16-Core Neural Engine	7-8 Core Apple GPU	Dual channel LPDDR4X-4266	November 2020	iPad Air (5th generation) iPad Pro (5th generation) MacBook Air (Late 2020) 13" MacBook Pro (Late 2020) Mac mini (Late 2020) 24" iMac (2021)
	M1 Pro		Up to 3.2GHz 8-10 Core 6-8 performance cores (Firestorm) 2 efficiency cores (Icestorm) 16-Core Neural Engine	14-16 Core Apple GPU	Dual channel LPDDR5-6400	October 2021	14" MacBook Pro (2021) 16" MacBook Pro (2021)
	M1 Max		Up to 3.2GHz 10-Core 8 performance cores (Firestorm) 2 efficiency cores (Icestorm) 16-Core Neural Engine	24-32 Core Apple GPU	Quad channel LPDDR5-6400		14" MacBook Pro (2021) 16" MacBook Pro (2021) Mac Studio (2022)
	M1 Ultra		Up to 3.2GHz 20-Core 16 performance cores (Firestorm) 4 efficiency cores (Icestorm) 32-Core Neural Engine	48-64 Core Apple GPU	8-channel LPDDR5-6400	March 2022	Mac Studio (2022)