It seems that it was yesterday when Apple presented to the world the M1 chip that would go in the new Macs. Apple Silicon represents the future of the Mac in Apple and the end for Intel, although Tim Cook already specified that this really would not have to be this way , but sooner than later, we will see how Intel disappears from the lives of apple users. The use of the new chips will mean for the company a potential savings of about $ XNUMX billion according to IBM.
An analysis of a senior IBM executive suggests that Apple's switch to M1 chips will save the company about $ 2.500 billion this year. Logically this saving will grow as we see how the implementation of this chip is added to more models, until the existence of all of them is completed.
This study must be taken with a grain of salt. These are estimates, since Apple has not published the cost associated with using the new Chips and therefore we will not really know what the total savings are. However, experts on the subject agree that these estimates are close to reality and it is more than likely that these figures are around. The IBM executive estimates that the production of M1 chips will cost Apple between $ 40 and $ 50. Until now, you were spending around $ 200 for the Intel Core i5 processor in the MacBook Air, and more for the version that carries the MacBook Pro.
The calculations are very simple, both to do and the ones you have taken into account to get those total figures. So that the costs may not be what you are using, but as we said before, it does not seem that it is going to be very far from the real figures.