> But it’s been eight months since the M1 shipped and we haven’t heard from Apple. I have a good guess what’s going on: It’s proving really hard to make a CPU (

> But it’s been eight months since the M1 shipped and we haven’t heard from Apple. I have a good guess what’s going on: It’s proving really hard to make a CPU (or SoC) that’s perceptibly faster than the M1 It’s possible the arguments in the rest of the article are correct, but this isn’t. Hardware cycles take a while and the design for the M1X or M2 was surely settled upon some time ago, probably even before the official M1 release.