The new Apple Silicon laptop chips will be based on the same core used in the A14, not the one in the A12. Rumors have pegged the entry level laptop chip at 8

The new Apple Silicon laptop chips will be based on the same core used in the A14, not the one in the A12. Rumors have pegged the entry level laptop chip at 8 big cores and 4 little cores. However, it will be interesting to see if that A14 big core implements the ARMv9 instruction set, which is said to be imminent. Apple did implement the ARMv8 instruction set much earlier than it's competitors, so there is a bit of a history there. ARM teased new features like an up to 2048 bit SIMD implementation with SVE2 and Transactional Memory for the ARMv9 instruction set back in early 2019, but has mostly been quiet. https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/new-technologies-for-the-arm-a-profile-architecture https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...