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Ground-breaking design changes from the Apple M4 down-scaled to the A18 chip.
Absolutely amazing performance for web-browsing, video, and office tasks.
Even beating most desktop-class PCs for those workloads.
Also Apple's first ARMv9 design !
Apple's A18 and M4 are world's most advanced processor designs by far !
Highest single-threaded performance coupled with best power-efficiency.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2024 |
| Arch Generation | 18 |
| Architecture / Codename | |
| Cores / Threads | 2P+4e (2 Performance Cores + 4 efficiency cores) |
| Technology Node | 3 nm (TSMC N3E) |
| Die Size | 105 mm2 |
| Transistors | ~20 billion estimated. |
| Frequency | 4000 MHz |
| Instructions | 192 KB + 128 KB /P-core |
| TDP | ~8 Watts |
| Cache L2 | 16 MB |
| Memory Type | LPDDR5 ? |
| Memory Bandwidth | |
| Memory Size Max | 8 GB |