Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase And A15 Based IP

Apple announced their new 20 billion transistor M2 SoC at WWDC. Unfortunately, it’s quite a minor uplift in performance in some areas such as CPU. Apple’s gains mostly came from the GPU and video editing side of things.

Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase And A15 Based IP

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Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase And A15 Based IP

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Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase And A15 Based IP

Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase And A15 Based IP

High Yield on X: Initial #Apple M2 Pro SoC die shot analysis. Clearly visible 8 P-cores, 4 E-cores, 19-core GPU, 16-core NPU, dual Media Engine, large SLC & LPDDR5 memory interface. Produced

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Apple A15 Die Shot and Annotation - IP Block Area Analysis

Apple A15 Die Shot and Annotation - IP Block Area Analysis