There are two routes Apple could have take for the 2nd Apple Silicon chip. 1. Apple could take the M1 design and just increased the number of Firestorm CPU cor

There are two routes Apple could have take for the 2nd Apple Silicon chip. 1. Apple could take the M1 design and just increased the number of Firestorm CPU cores (along with everything else). It would be an M1X, along exactly the same lines as the A10X and A12X. 2. Apple could create a next generation design with the eight or more of same Firestorm-next cores we will see in the A15 Bionic. Call it the M2. The M1X would have been easy enough for apple, and I think if it existed, we would have seen it by now. But it would have suffered from many of the same flaws that the M1 suffers from. The inability to drive more than two displays being a notable one. I think apple decided to skip the M1X and go straight for the M2. But it's a little too early for the M2 to launch. As it will be using the same cpu and gpu cores as the A15, it kind of needs to launch at around the same time at the earliest; Maybe a month or two earlier as they don't need to stockpile as much silicon for the M2s. My prediction is that we might see an M2 announced in August or September.