Today Apple has announced new Macbook Pros (MBP) with new M1 family SOCs (the M1 is a "system on a chip" rather than just a pure CPU).

Skip video to 14:10 to directly start with the interesting stuff (M1 / MBP):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exM1uajp--A

Super impressive chips

• M1 Max transistor count (57B) >> AMDs biggest Epyc server CPU (~40B). That's a crazy large chip for a laptop!
• M1 Pro also very impressive at 34B transistors.
• A lot of that is not CPU, but GPU and other stuff though.
• Overall transistor count on M1 Max 64GB package: ~570 billion! 57B M1 Max SoC + 4 * 128B DDR5 RAM chips.
• Very power efficient, far better than Intel CPU or Intel CPU + ext. GPU combinations.
• This is enabled by currently most modern 5nm TSMC process.

Unclear / yet to be seen

• CPU cores: any change or same as in the 2020 M1? Clock rates? IPC changes?
• CPU single thread performance?
• How does the increased amount of performance cores scale? M1: 4, M1 Pro/Max: 8 perf. cores.
• CPU performance - does 200GB/s (Pro) vs. 400GB/s (Max) memory bandwidth make a practical difference? Or is the additional bandwidth mostly / only for the (additional) GPU cores?
• Is the memory bandwidth always 200GB/s (Pro, Max: 400GB/s) or does it depend on memory amount (16/32/64 GB)?
• Cache sizes?
• TDP, maximum, mostly-idle and standby power consumption?
• Performance compared to latest Intel/AMD chips.