Computing · 2020

Apple M1

ARM laptops with class-leading performance per watt.

Apple's M1 packed 16 billion transistors on TSMC's 5 nm process. It moved the Mac to ARM and proved ARM could lead in personal computers.

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transistors per microprocessor Latest: 58.2B transistors (2021) Source: Our World in Data