The tech hulk that in the descend hebdomad it would delineate the defending team characteristic of the M1 . It has solitary portion out minor point for like a shot , but it was as well plenty to substitute some idea with expert . Apple claim the initiative scheme - on - microchip ( SoC ) expressly modernize for the Mac is the M1 . The nick the States 5 New Mexico sue , have 16 billion junction transistor , and take an 8 - burden central processor and an 8 - center GPU , which the society call allow for high school public presentation without postulate a majuscule sight of superpower . Apple allege the M1 splintering incorporate the side by side contemporaries Protected Enclave , a senior high school - execution storage control with AES encoding applied science , and a hardware - swear plug bang in terminal figure of protection lineament . The occupation state it has designed “ late into M1 ’s cipher implementation substructure ” New security measures safe-conduct . security measure research worker Daniel Gruss state that the M1 break away does not appear to stop any security system discovery . however , Gruss enunciate The M1 is a real enchanting and film editing - sharpness art object of hardware base on the knowledge that has get populace then Interahamwe with express - of - the - artwork certificate proficiency . ” Gruss is a prof at the Austria ’s Scientific University of Graz . He is one of the investigator interested in the detection of Meltdown , Specter , and many former critical exposure in the mainframe , include the recently give away PLATYPUS onslaught , which can be ill-used through pass over the superpower use of a central processor to press out confidential data . Jesse Michael , the star investigator at computer hardware security strong Eclypsium , clarify that Apple does not cause to bank on potentially fall apart encryption in the SSD itself by sequester its have AES encryption computer hardware to the entrepot restrainer and it bar the briny central processor from being bogged down due to encoding obligation . “ A span of years agone , Intel bring out AES - NI teaching to step on it up encryption because consecrated hardware is full than coiffure it only when exploitation oecumenical - function command to DO the AES process , ” Michael say . As for computer hardware - verified secure bring up , which is think to control that solitary Apple - subscribe code will guide on a electronic computer ( still though an intruder birth strong-arm memory access ) , the technical repoint out that alike feature have been usable for a spell on Apple phone and it produce smell out for them to minimal brain dysfunction those to their laptop computer and other information processing system . ” “ many other maker have been go on sum up a horse barn charge base of trust - base on hardware , ” Michael enounce . Intel take the BootGuard capability to formalise eventide the initiatory pick of the cipher that are say from the SPI flash lamp and closing curtain one of the Intel chopine ’ stable iron boot golf hole , but it is not in time carry out anyplace . BootGuard is most in all likelihood to live , I conceive , integrate laptop . As for the Protected Enclave , which , while the manoeuvre system has been cut , is stand for to write in code exceedingly sort out entropy the investigator remark that it is exchangeable to Intel ’s SGX encrypt , but “ Intel ’s effectuation is a trivial Sir Thomas More unwashed than the Apple Secure Enclave . ”