An “M2” chip for Mac Pro and iMac at the end of 2021?

While the performance of Apple's very first chip, M1, surprised the entire world of new technologies, the Apple brand does not seem to want to stop there. Indeed, the Cupertino company is already planning for the future, with the release, during the second half of 2021, of a new “Made in Apple” chip, currently called “M2”.

Information that has already left California, the project would for the moment be named “Jade” and this new processor would accompany the new versions of iMac and Mac Pro, which still remain the only machines with an Intel processor to exceed performanceof the 13-inch MacBook Pro M1.

With this release therefore, the M2 chips (even if the name remains to be confirmed) would be the most powerful in Apple's entire range. Already today, the M1 chip presents better single-core results than its competitors at Intel, but the latter can have up to 28, in the most advanced configurations, which leaves no chance for the eight cores of the M1 chip. .

A 12-core “M2” chip?

The new generation of Apple Silicon chips could therefore, without any possible dispute, beat the performance of Intel processors. For this, it would be equipped with 12 cores instead of the usual 8.

A Bloomberg report already pointed in this direction at the beginning of 2020. It announced that Apple was already working on an Apple Silicon chip with 12 cores, which suggested that the Apple brand was going to give the choice of the composition of its chip to the buyer, with several versions in front of him (here 8 or 12 cores). A hypothesis which seems to be confirmed with the probable arrival of this new “M2” chip in 2021.

But according to the famous Ming-Chi Kuo, the Cupertino company would be even more in a hurry than that, and it would like to offera 24-inch iMac redesigned with Apple Silicon technology. It remains to be seen whether this new computer will have an M2 chip or if, like what was done with the MacBook Airs this year, a version with the old processor will be released in the spring (in the case of the MacBook Airs, it 'was an Intel processor). And a new version will be released 6 months later with a new processor, (M1 for MacBook Air) and M2 for iMac, at the end of next year?