We’ve seen a lot of this from other vendors with apps like Photoshop on Intel’s 11th Gen designs. Chips for chip sake do nothing and it’s all about the incremental user benefit. Neural engine, ISP- I am glad to see this 16 core NPU and will be even happier to see what it can do that other platforms cannot do. While Apple can't explain how it comes up with its transistor count (ask the company), this is a big chip and to keep it somewhat small, used 5nm TSMC to get there.

We saw with the Surface Pro X how much better it performed with native Arm-based applications and libraries and I think we will see the same here.ĥnm/16B transistor processor- This is the first notebook processor using 5nm TSMC process and deserves some kudos. I think we will see some equivalence between Intel’s 7nm and TSMC’s 5nm process, give or take a bit of performance and power. Apple native applications- Apple rewrote its core applications like Mail and Calendar for Arm and I think these will act and perform well.