Processor
Apple M1
16 000 000 000 transistors on a 5 nm die carrying processor cores, graphics cores, a neural engine and a memory controller. Apple's description states no clock frequency.
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Architecture
- Arm64, four performance cores and four efficiency cores
- Introduced
- November 2020
- Word size
- 64 bit
- Core count
- 8
- Instruction set
- Arm64
- Record status
- approved
Figures
| Metric | Value | Evidence | Basis | Method | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transistor count cpu | 16 000 000 000 transistors | Confirmed | Vendor-rated | Die specification Stated by the vendor The whole M1 die: processor cores, graphics cores, Neural Engine and memory controller. Apple writes "16 billion", which is two significant digits. The figure covers the entire die and is recorded at cpu scope only because the metric admits no scope that means "whole chip"; it is not a count of the processor cores' transistors, and no vendor breakdown exists. | |
| Process node cpu | 5 nm | Confirmed | Vendor-rated | Die specification Stated by the vendor Fabrication process named by Apple for the M1 die. A process name expressed as a length, not a measured dimension: nothing on this die is five nanometers across. The metric forbids ratios for that reason, so this figure can be displayed and never divided. |
Fitted to
Editorial notes
The 8 cores are four performance cores and four efficiency cores, so "eight cores" describes two different things counted together and no per-core figure would mean the same for both halves. The transistor count and the process node are recorded here because the catalog's metrics allow only `cpu` and `gpu` scope for them, but they belong to the whole die, graphics and neural engine included; both figures say so in their caveats.